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He is full of himself because he uses a bit of French in an English text? I don't understand how that works. It's a common literary technique to do this and it
by YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
He is full of himself because he uses a bit of French in an English text? I don't understand how that works. It's a common literary technique to do this and it is not without place in scholarly articles.
Just because a text is not pandering to the lowest common denominator with respect to literacy, it's not "full of [itself]".
- xg15 4y agoThis is not a scholarly article though. It has the form of a scholarly article, but the author has no credentials, no institution, doesn't cite any references and to my knowledge has not submitted the article for any kind of peer review. This is effectively Some Dude On Twitter but on Arxiv.
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y agoThat's a fair assessment. Still, there's no reason to cry posh whenever we see some French.