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Ep. 17 – Learning the Human Game

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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What Is the Right English Language?

Dwight McDonald: lexicographers have abdicated their responsibility. Fowler's Modern English Usage is a marvelous guide to a certain epoch of correct English, he says. But if the lexicographers give in entirely to this, there are no standards, writes McElvoy.

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