Why Academics Revel in Bad Writing
The profession’s taste for tortured verbiage comes from a desire to be taken seriously. But does it matter if no one actually reads their work?
Articles or Illustrations by Sarah Sweet
Sarah Sweet (@catastrophizer) is the magazine's copy editor.
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Barbarians at the Gates of Grammar
My Latinist father and I always disagreed about language. Then I got old
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Why Women Who Fish Are Still Fishermen
It’s clear when language is sexist—except when the people you’re talking about disagree
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Please Stop Sending Me the Oxford Comma Story
Copy editors have lives outside of punctuation—but also, I love commas
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Trump's Typo Problem: Human Error, or Willful Ignorance?
The number of mistakes signals that important people don’t know what they’re doing—and couldn’t care less
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