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Two observations about language: In the academic world, this is what we might call "the season of verbal imprecision." Professors seek to craft exquisite questions to make examinations not merely evaluations but vehicles for teaching and learning. Students write papers, struggling with an insistent awareness that what you say is inseparably wed to the manner in which you say it. In both cases, the frustrating vagaries of language threaten to confuse, confound, and obscure the intended meaning. Professors and students alike understand once again what T.S.