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Kant falls foul of the Plain English movement

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MMarks
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The Plain English Campaign don’t like Kant. Perhaps they should try Hegel.

Germaine Greer writes:

The campaign’s press officer, the ruggedly monosyllabic Ben Beer, informed me as plain Ms Greer – no honorifics – of my unlooked-for good fortune thus: “I am writing on behalf of the Plain English Campaign with the news that you have won one of our infamous ‘Golden Bull’ awards this year. The award is for a sentence published in your Guardian article published on October 23 2006 … some of our supporters were somewhat baffled by the following: ‘The first attribute of the art object is that it creates a discontinuity between itself and the unsynthesised manifold.’”

There’s some heated discussion in the comments too.

Glossary of terms in Kant

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6 responses to “Kant falls foul of the Plain English movement”

  1. Victor Dewsbery avatar
    Victor Dewsbery

    An interesting follow-up to your post on the Bible.
    Is there a hidden link?
    For many people, perhaps “ein w

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  2. Margaret Marks avatar
    Margaret Marks

    Is there a lot of desecration of graves where you are? I know the old Jewish cemetery here is usually closed, but I don’t think it’s intended for that.

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  3. Victor Dewsbery avatar
    Victor Dewsbery

    Not that I’ve heard of, although I’m out on the western edge of the city, which tends to be a bit more relaxed. In Berlin as a whole and the surrounding region, I think aggression against people with a darker complexion is more of a problem than graveyard vandalism.

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  4. Margaret Marks avatar
    Margaret Marks

    Yes, I suppose it would be against public policy to insure against that.
    I have to say this is really the least of my worries at the moment.

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  5. trevor avatar
    trevor

    And there’s me paying insurance to help keep me OUT of the grave.

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  6. Margaret Marks avatar
    Margaret Marks

    Since I posted this, there was a report in the Sunday paper that seventy graves were desecrated in Forchheim on Friday night. Flowers were pulled up, crosses overturned and plant bowls broken. The police say the damage cost at least 5000 euros. They don’t say anything more about it.

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