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… attempts at fixing the rules of language so as to guarantee sociability. The aim was to get rid of ‘abuses of words’. 3 Jonathan Swift, in 1712, published a letter addressed to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in which he warned his readers against the … An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [1690], ed. Peter H. Nidditch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 490-491. 4 . Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue [1712] in Valerie Rumbold …
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