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Ronan
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it's getting interesting now where he's talking about editing / communicating via writing in the English language and what to avoid. That's quite useful. The rest of it seems to be a roast of the English language itself which I guess I'm here for, but the old-fashioned (and frankly sometimes bigoted) cadence sort of makes me distrust some of the evaluations he's made thus far. So it's more like a skim.
— Jan 01, 2026 07:17AM
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Ronan
is on page 263 of 669
Enjoying that this has the energy of a speedrun but in the 1940s, and very interested to hear etymology / quirks of words of English from the Romance languages and how to pronounce certain letters... at least according to the author, which I'm going to trust for now.
— Jan 08, 2026 07:01AM
Ronan
is on page 124 of 669
I know that an experience with a book is going to be not great because around the first third of it I start becoming just a little insane. I suppose because I'm not a man in 1943 and have the power of retrospect to say "what do you MEAN? No, that didn't happen!" That sort of thing.
— Dec 22, 2025 12:06PM
Ronan
is on page 40 of 669
This dude's introduction is very long. I've never read a longer or stranger introduction chapter. Please make your point and tell me the intention of this book and leave. I beg you.
— Apr 14, 2025 07:26AM
