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themis1 ([personal profile] themis1) wrote2007-02-11 11:42 pm
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Hm

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.


"It is scarcely possible not to notice that the definition of the police mandate escaped Ockhams Rasor."

From which you will deduce ...

... the nearest book was a PhD text  ...

... the author of which writes bloody awful sentences.  Why couldn't he just say, "you will notice that ..."

[identity profile] mythichistorian.livejournal.com 2007-02-12 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Because academics like to use complex sentence construction. Makes them sound more ... academic. *g*