I'm struck by how advertisements for services like grammerly put the lie to the idea that there no economic value to the humanities. grammerly is a program that ties to replicate (poorly) the sort of prose stylistics that are precisely the sort of thing the humanities teach. 1/5
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Consequently, clean communication is training for clean thinking (and also - yes, I'd argue that does mean that different languages might argue different ways). Cicero (De Orat. 1.32.144) makes the point - in his advice for orators, he gives speaking correctly *first*...
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...before invention (that is, topic selection and choice of evidence), before structure, before rhetorical flourish. "First, speak correctly, then grammatically, then clearly, then simply." If grammarly is a tool to get there, great. But it is not a tool *around* getting there.
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