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Nice essay, great topic.
'Spreeman, I'm not so sure about having to lift language up a bit for acedemics. Maybe so about 50 years ago, but now I think that the occasional punchy piece of real-speak can carry an essay along very effectively.
I have to write scientific papers, which can frequently be as dry as a lizzard's tongue. Even we tend to bring things back down to earth occasionally, and the readability -and interest- goes up markedly.
Note that the lizzard carries a possessive gramatical burden in the previous colloquialism.
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