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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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Learning how to quote, learning how to make yourself suitable to be quoted, aiming at being unquotable or endlessly quotable.
I think these are probably the same people who usually say, '…it comes from the Greek word for "duty"'.
Education as cultivation of various shibboleths.
My friends tell me that according to their colleagues, the important thing is to give students exams about the definitions of terms like 'deontological'.
Specialists respond mainly to one another; this can make them, in general, unresponsive.
'That's not my area.'