Adjectival / adverbial insistence: PRC emphatic economics
Language Log 2024-12-22
Summary:
Reading PRC articles, they strike me as mostly propagandistic hype and rhetoric, but very little substance. Simon Cox recognizes that in his "China’s inscrutable economic policy","Drum Tower", Eonomist: F.R. Leavis, an English-literature don, used to complain about something he called “adjectival insistence”. He was thinking of Joseph Conrad, who was a bit too fond of words […]