Is there a direct logical conflict between the premise and the hypothesis? Premise: 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 ). Hypothesis: I have no trouble communicating facts about language to nonlinguists, but he struggles mightily.
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 ).###I have no trouble communicating facts about language to nonlinguists, but he struggles mightily.