“Conflation (noun): A combining or blending or two or more versions of a text; confusion or mixing up. Adjective: conflated; Verb: conflate.
‘Big, heavy textbook….They aim to take in a typical freshman, gawky and clueless, process him cover to cover, and turn out a conflation of Walter Pater and George Orwell.’ Richard Lanham, Style.”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
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