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   From: jcb@inf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   On 2010-08-01, Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   ...   
   > I found them enjoyable in parts, with some memorable bits. But his writing   
   > style is annoying, with repetitive cliches (Covenant clenching himself and   
   > chewing ground glass) and strange malapropisms that should have been caught   
   by   
   > an editor (he uses "sojourning" in contexts where it is clear that the word   
   he   
   > was looking for was "journeying", for example).   
      
   The trouble with Donaldson is that one never knows whether he's simply   
   misusing words out of ignorance, or deliberately digging out an obscure   
   usage. "Sojourning" did sometimes mean "journeying", about four centuries   
   ago.   
      
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