Bryan Garner (1958-) is an American writer, lexicographer, lawyer, and professor. He authored Garner's Modern English Usage and is editor-in-chief of Black's Legal Dictionary.
Because writing reflects thinking, if your thinking is obscure and convoluted your prose will be too.
Complication and obscurity often reflect insecurity on the part of the writer or speaker.
In practice, self-described ‘purists’ are often ill informed about what actually constitutes good usage.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
