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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.
There is, of course, method in his madness (it has been claimed that puns introduce lunacy into language, but it was there all along), and capering wordcaprice in his pedantry.
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:
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).
The last-named book is largely a spoof on linguistic pedantry, and I fear that Saussy III has been drawn in.