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To a subject that is treated in the most turgid fashion by linguists and with unusually irresponsible scholarship by many other commentators, Bill Safire brings just the right, literate, human touch, often funny, ever lively, and always friendly, informative, and entertaining.
While he certainly can be eccentric, solipsistic, and turgid, at his best moments West is shrewd, courageous, and inspirational.
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.
For one thing, LawGuy's answers were clear and prompt, while the actual lawyers' answers could be turgid, filled with statutory language, including formal citations, sometimes posted long after the question appeared.
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.