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Certainly it is no passing fad, dependent on vogue words, for despite its infancy it employs such age-old terms as alas, albeit, perforce , and withal . Nor it can be taxed with pedantry, demonstrably, for on occasion it makes use of colloquial expressions like for starters, likewise, for sure , and no doubt about it . Above all, though some people might think otherwise, it definitely does not involve clichés.
At Gore's first appearance this morning, at an environment conference in Des Moines, he talked about global warming and drift-net fishing in a way that was truly informative and mostly lacking in pedantry (though he did go on a bit).
[We would not dare to disagree, but the distinction between enclosed [herein] and enclosed herewith seems a finicky needle's-eye of pedantry, and it smacks of “reconstruction” of something that was never structured to begin with.
Ezra Pound, for all his provincial pedantry, in his Canto LXXXI as printed on p. 526 of The New Oxford Book of American Verse, writes didactically:
The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.
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