[lit-ideas] Re: why can't the english (professors) learn how to speak?
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:49:00 +0000 (GMT)
Of course, the question is itself badly phrased: they have learnt how to speak.
What the "quote" shows is not an inability to speak but some alleged defect in
their writing. So the question would be clearer if phrased as 'Why can't
English professors write better English (than what they sometimes do)?" Not
being an English professor, I not only bow to Lacan who bows to Freud who bows
to the Greeks, but bow out here.
Donal
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standard fare, the quote is, no less, from a harvard faculty member
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Sent: 19 December 2012 04:47 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: why can't the english (professors) learn how to speak?
I beg to differ. They're just silly. (Yes, Donal, just plain silly, nothing
more, nothing less.)
Wishing you all a very Happy Holiday Season with much joy, prosperity and
fulfillment in the New Year.
Cheers,
Walter Okshevsky
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> These are profound insights.
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> R Paul
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> discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification,
> pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and
> classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to "normalize"
> formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the
> rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.[6]
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