...the best writers are always philologists...I would make three other suggestions for improving your diction over time. First, study Latin, a language whose roots constitute a surprisingly large percentage of our own language's words. Second, read widely. (p.80)I shall let you buy the book to find out the third...
11.22.2011
Not that this is the first reason to study Latin...
From The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay:
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