Notwithstanding the valuable role he plays in inspiring nonlinguists to think about language and in informing them about myriad facets of the subject, I find it hard slogging (or, as he would probably write,  sloguing ).
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I have no trouble communicating facts about language to nonlinguists, but he struggles mightily.
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