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Saturday, 12 July 2014

Bdelygmia

No, it's not a typo. It's a technique in rhetoric where you use a litany of critical epithets against your opponent. Just imagine all the things I would like to call Gove who had the nerve to say on Newsnight that outstanding teachers agreed with his reforms. Nope. So I'm not going to use it because you are all far too well-versed in the Sapir Whorf hypothesis to fall for such techniques (and because you no doubt have your own views on Gove and I see no necessity to change them) but I thought you might be interested to know what it was.

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