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Dear Microsoft Word grammar check,

No. When I say "at this juncture", I do not mean "now." Now is not a good word at all, and not just because it's only one word as opposed to three. "Now" means at this place in time. "At this juncture" means at this place, here, maybe in time, maybe in MY ARGUMENT. Now is a crappy, crappy alternative.

Butt out of my style!
no love,
Me.

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An excerpt from someone excerpting Rawls:

The intuitive notion here is that this structure contains various social positions and that men [sic!] born into different positions have different expectations of life determined... by economic and social circumstances.

This is very funny to me because this excerpt is in the middle of a Very Serious Piece - philosophers can be really different in their style and Fabienne Peter in this article has made some rather formal stylistic choices - and then out of nowhere there's this tremendously sarcastic exclamation point. So subtle! So sassy! So hilarious! ♥ Oh Fabienne, I thought you were dull but you're so not. (I mean, the content of her article is not at all dull, unless, um, you find a reasonably theoretical analysis of direct and indirect Rawlsian approaches to health care, public health, and inequities dull, which just for the record, I do not. If someone gets me "Public Health, Ethics, and Equity" for Christmas I'll be very fond of them. Hint, Hint, rewihendrix.)