With the 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 ).', is 'He likes to inspire nonlinguists so that more people take up linguistics.' a logical derivative?
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 ).###He likes to inspire nonlinguists so that more people take up linguistics.