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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 17 Feb 2014

    Academics marginalize themselves with turgid prose. My next book, The Sense of Style (Sept) to the rescue.http://goo.gl/XiSzsT 

    3:36 AM - 17 Feb 2014
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      2. Chris Maslanka‏ @ChrisMaslanka 17 Feb 2014
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker That's how they recognise each other and stop people with limpid prose from clambering aboard the good ship Poppycock

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      3. Ricardo Vigón‏ @drvigon 17 Feb 2014
        Replying to @ChrisMaslanka

        @ChrisMaslanka @sapinker That's it: sort of a class-tag autoprotective jargon supposedly flagging a higher intellective output... B***shit.

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      4. Chris Maslanka‏ @ChrisMaslanka 17 Feb 2014
        Replying to @drvigon

        @drvigon @sapinker Thank you for providing a perfect example!

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      5. Ricardo Vigón‏ @drvigon 17 Feb 2014
        Replying to @ChrisMaslanka

        @ChrisMaslanka @sapinker That was my aim... ;-)

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      6. Chris Maslanka‏ @ChrisMaslanka 17 Feb 2014
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        @drvigon @sapinker Spot on!

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      1. Dr. Danna Young 🇺🇸 ✌🏻‏ @dannagal 17 Feb 2014
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        "Turgid prose?" Irony, yes? RT “@sapinker: Academics marginalize themselves with turgid prose. http://goo.gl/XiSzsT ”

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      1. MonsterDome‏ @Monster_Dome 21 Feb 2014
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        .@sapinker "Academics marginalize themselves with turgid prose." @clairlemon If ever there was a body crying out for carminative relief...

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      1. Freddy A. Bracke‏ @brackefr 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker @mboudry Looking forward to it - style (and grace) conspicuously absent from present intellectual debates!

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      1. Kevin Johnson‏ @Man_With_Pan 28 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker I hope you attempt to set up standards by which the historical transformations (and national types) can be more exactly defined.

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      1. Todd Rhodes‏ @2qaz1wsx 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker Just watched your talk at MIT http://video.mit.edu/watch/communicating-science-and-technology-in-the-21st-century-steven-pinker-12644/ …

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      1. John Stinchcomb‏ @John_Stinchcomb 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker We need more Isaac Asimovs Carl Sagans Neil DeGrasse Tysons. Inspiring interest in learning without intimidating or condescending.

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      1. Robert Pettigrew‏ @bullybonkers 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker Glam rock Prof.

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      1. Kimberly‏ @fleurdelivres 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker VERY excited for this!

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      1. The Allium‏ @TheAllium 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker My next book is called "The scents of style" - its about the smell of old socks.

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      2. Amanda467‏ @Amanda467 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker anthropology has done exactly that.

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      3. TheresaKhorshid‏ @theresakhorshid 17 Feb 2014
        Replying to @Amanda467

        @Amanda467 @sapinker - right - there is a whole body of work on this already - short version, it is on purpose, to exclude "hoi polloi"

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      1. massimiliano parente‏ @parentetweet 17 Feb 2014
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        @sapinker @RichardDawkins and I have already proposed you for the literature #nobel prize.

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