The text mixes clear-headed and often trenchant explication of sometimes arcane philosophical ideas, pungent writing ( " To be disillusioned one needs first to have been illusioned " ) with wordy awkwardness ( " Schopenhauer argued that it is this that is the . . . " ) and amusing Britishisms ( " snook-cocking exuberance "; the " knockabout larkiness " of Nietzsche's attacks on Wagner ).
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:: : : : : While the argument that the article is written in British English has some merit, as the articles includes the spellings " spelt " and " favour ", it includes non-Britishisms, such as the use of the word " Slavic " instead of " Slavonic ", " while " instead of " whilst ", and references to American geography, as in the discussion of how Massachussetts is spelled in Slovenian.
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:: Ah, that would explain why many people that read my stuff think I'm archaic, pedantic and pompous .; ) I use a lot of Britishisms in my writing, probably on account of the fact I read lots of old British books ( or old North American books, back when those types of words were more frequently used . . . ) Thanks ! : )-- talk ) 16 : 58, 20 June 2013 ( UTC)
