Mark Halpern: Two Bad Papers on Language Usage: “They are both, in very different ways, bad papers. Wallace’s makes some sound points in support of traditional good English, but is itself so badly written as to make the thought cross one’s mind, at least for a moment, that it was written by a clever enemy of good English in order to discredit the notion. Winchester’s is a little ? not much ? better written, but makes no sound points at all; its thesis is so nonsensical as to suggest that it was written by his bitterest enemy, out to ruin him professionally. The Vocabula Review