Conservative Chic
Michael Mason, 6 May 1982
The Politics of Culture and Other Essays
by Roger Scruton.
Carcanet, 245 pp., £8.95, October 1981,0 85635 362 0 Show More
by Roger Scruton.
Carcanet, 245 pp., £8.95, October 1981,
“... considerations – so platitudinous that they make dreary rehearsing – Simon believes that our powers of making clear statements in English will be impaired if we admit most new usages. It might just be, by an astonishingly remote chance, that contemporary English as defined by the books is the most efficient language that has ever existed. But we have no ... ”