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— Nelson Goodman"Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality."
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
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