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From: "Dave Alan Coon (:" <dcoon@ksu.edu>
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To: Matthew Hoover <m.hoover@csu-e.csuohio.edu>
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Subject: Re: bad writing
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Matt hoover's comments about Talcott Parsons are right on Target. Also, 
My undergraduate Social Theory professor described German as "a thousand 
words in search of a verb," IT is difficult to understand many Sociology 
works that have been translated from German, including parts of Max 
Weber's _Protestant_Ethic_and_The_Spirit_of_Capitalism_, which, 
incidentally, was translated by TALCOT PARSONS.

Sincerely,

David Coon 
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~dcoon 
MA Student & Graduate Teaching Asst.
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work  http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/
Kansas State University