<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">Dutton also ran a </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px"><a href="http://www.denisdutton.com/language_crimes.htm" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(8,112,147);box-sizing:border-box">Bad Writing Contest</a></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px"> that lampooned “the most egregious examples of awkward, jargon-clogged academic prose” produced in any particular year. (Sadly, this competition — to borrow a phrase from one of its winners — now has an “absentation of actuality”. That is, it no longer exists.)</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">Here is a winner:  </span><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">one year’s 94-word single sentence </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px"><a href="http://www.denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(8,112,147);box-sizing:border-box">winning entry</a></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:Merriweather,serif;font-size:15px">, “To ask what [it] means is to miss the point. [It] beats readers into submission and instructs them that they are in the presence of a great and deep mind. Actual communication has nothing to do with it.”    bill w</span></div></div>