    Sertence 1: It is as € you looked up, say,  infer/impyy in a usage manual and the author’s    anyone so dense and rude as to have  had to look up the entry to begin with.    Sertence 2: It’s as if the author replaced the  explanation for infer/imply with their own rant  agairet anyone who wold dare to look it up  in the first place. *