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Updated: May 14, 2025
'De Quincey once said that authors are a dangerous class for any language' so Professor Krapp has reminded us in his book on Modern English, and he has explained that De Quincey meant 'that the literary habit of mind is likely to prove dangerous for a language ... because it so often leads a speaker or writer to distrust natural and unconscious habit, even when it is right, and to put in its stead some conscious theory of literary propriety.
And since I have borrowed the quotation from Professor Krapp I shall bring this rambling paper to an end by borrowing another, from the Toxophilus of Roger Ascham . 'He that will wryte well in any tongue must folowe this council of Aristotle, to speake as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
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