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There is much to interest and amuse the reader in Mother Tongue , and I find it a pity that teachers do not use books like this to introduce students to the wonders and humor of language to reinforce what I hope is their own enthusiasm for the subject in place of the turgid texts they are stuck with.
It's a turgid welter of pornography (the rudest schoolboy kind) & uninformed & unimportant drivel.
One need only read the academic papers published in linguistic journals to be convinced that, notwithstanding their specialty, linguists at large are incapable of writing simple, expository, declarative sentences without resorting to turgid syntax, obscure vocabulary, and uncompromising sesquipedalianism.
Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.
The Weekly Standard 's Christopher Caldwell bashes the New York Times Book Review . Its critics are mostly second-rate novelists who write turgid prose and "rave about demonstrably bad books."