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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Using English Speech Act Verbs
i'm a big fan of julia galif, and i think that the contrast in the book we're talking about between lawyers and scientists is very much akin to the one that she's set up between scouts and soldiers. You know, somanticists, if you look at verb like admit, so one of my old professors, anovis biske wrote a book a called english speech act verbs. So it would be things like admit and say and tell and instruct and all all the words. And what's amazing is tat for every there's a couple of pages of deep, complex explication. If only people were more critical and precisely that way, i think we'd all
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