Taxonomical slices
Hi,
“The pieces have mostly been published elsewhere, and just occasionally the prose falters (‘Rather than cutting the salami of non-compliance into ever thinner taxonomical slices...’). Overall, though, this is a splendid, trenchant collection.”
I’m not sure what point the author was trying to get across by the sentence in the brackets. I understand the individual words but not the overall meaning of it all.
Thank you.
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Ann225 I’m not sure what point the author was trying to get across by the sentence in the brackets. , faltering prose) selected by the reviewer from the article being reviewed. It seems to me that the reviewer doesn't quite understand it himself, so it's hard to believe that he wants us readers to make sense of it either.
- Ann225 I’m not sure what point the author was trying to get across by the sentence in the brackets.
- , faltering prose) selected by the reviewer from the article being reviewed.
- It seems to me that the reviewer doesn't quite understand it himself, so it's hard to believe that he wants us readers to make sense of it either.
- In any case, its meaning is not the point of the reviewer's having mentioned it.
- Its poor quality is the real point.
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Ann225I’m not sure what point the author was trying to get across by the sentence in the brackets.
It's an example of poor writing (i.e., faltering prose) selected by the reviewer from the article being reviewed. It seems to me that the reviewer doesn't quite understand it himself, so it's hard to believe that he wants us readers to make sense of it either
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