A different Language Log poster notes another pointless attack on Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Williams said: "...I must, of course, take responsibility for any unclarity in either that text or in the radio interview..." to which UK Times columnist Alan Hamilton commented:
So, Christians: to pride, lust and the rest, add the eighth deadly sin of “unclarity” — a word that is obscure enough not to appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Benjamin Zimmer, editor of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, points out how asinine that criticism is.
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