Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (Learning to think critically means learning to write critically, which the blogoshere makes abundantly clear. Due to the overabundance of crap. The fight against bad English is not frivolous", said George Orwell, who argued that, "the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts". These days one of the strongest proponents of Orwell's argument that sloppy writing breeds sloppy thinking is a man called Denis Dutton.
A professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Denis Dutton is also editor of the website Arts and Letters Daily, and for some years he ran an extremely successful annual Bad Writing contest for turgid prose from around the world. ( PM Radio)
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