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    NYS i EeLLDPLDALLLE | ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER. arguage Learnabilty and Language Develapmient Learmabity and Cognition The Language Instinct How the Mind Works Words and Rules The Blank late The Stuffof Thought ‘The eter Angel of Our Nate Language, Cagnition, and Human Nature Sel ed Articles EDITED By STEVEN PinKER Visual Cognition Connections and Symbols (with Jacques Mehlet) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (with Beth Levin) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 Steven Pinker The SENSE Style THE THINKING PERSON'S. GUIDE TO WRITING IN THE 21ST CENTURY/ Viking “402 vig Freie Universitat Bertin bled the sin Giop pommgermeasne” J.F-Kennady-Institut ew ok New rk ond Bibliothek To Suson Pinker and Robert Pinker who havea way with words "3 08 & ‘nue et a A 49 ogee Dent ain Poss Contents Prologue Chapter 1 6000 waitin Chapter 2 AWINDOW ONTO THE WORLD Chapter 3 THE CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE Chapter 4 ‘THE WEB, THE TREE, AND THE STRING Chapter § ARCS OF COHERENCE Chapter 6 TELLING RIGHT FROM WRONG Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References, Index Prologue ese mols. Eerie was sige Sanka Whe [rbot enon ntsey mig ee sting ose among verry ee a Jutta came advice on he iong clings of patente Crit wing ts so at ibe ate en weg ma el Sewer the es ofthe manasa opm since lum Sunk coun nes on ing hh stan En tren tous bck wa wih gems Steeempieaton sucht Wie withnoerend orbs "Pa te erp mrs atts tthe on ee as prime tein, "Omt eds en Mayenne st ae pd tritici sini gy Amigos Be tan Ars ewe il Bysen Rob ie Tey Ke Se phen Hing, Load cs, Gore Orel Wilam Sate and ofcourse Wie hie Dveé shor of Crate Meband Su Lite Hoe ren eas mining st hi ter Inthe days when 1 was sting in is las, he omitted so many need less words, and omitted them so forcibly and with such eagerness EE ‘nd obvious relish that he often seemed inthe postion of having shortchanged himself—a man left with nothing more to say yet with time to ila radio prophet who had outdistanced the cack, Willstrunk ot out ofthis predicament by asimpe trickshe uttered ‘very sentence thee times, When he delivered his oration on brev ity to the cass he leaned forward aver his desk grasped his coat lapesin hishands, and ina husky, conspiratorial voce said, "Rule Seventeen, nit needless words! Omit neeess words! Omi need: less words! Hike to read style manuals for another reason, the one that sends botanists to the garden and chemists to the kitchen: it’s a practical ‘pplication of our science. Tama psycholinguistand a cognitive scien fist, and what is style afterall, but the effective use of wonls to engage ‘he human mind? I’ all the more captivating to someone who seeks 6

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