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Powell's Q&A, Q&A | December 10, 2009

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Describe your latest book/project/work. I've been studying the life and work of photographer W. Eugene Smith for 13 years. My first book (Dream... Continue »
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

David Babson, April 15, 2006

An excellent book. I am, however, particularly intrigued by your posted review, by Douglas Brown, which has the ancestors of medieval Norse living in Iceland to this day. Such people would be an incredible historical resource, since they would be between 1,100 and 1,000 years old. This error, saying "ancestors" when you mean "descendants," is an increasingly common collapse of standard English usage and, perhaps, an indication of social decay, through sloppiness and confusion. I am sorry to see Powell's editorial system collapse in this way.
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