“Proponents of the academy allude to some benevolent purpose behind the absolutely ridiculous babble in almost every academic book above the high school level … Is the author using his obscure vocabulary to help you better understand the subject at hand, or is it exactly the opposite?”

One of my major dislikes about my entire course has been the pretentious waffle that so many papers spout. It just makes things harder to understand and makes the subject seem remote and stuck-up. From h3h.net, here.

Posted Friday, April 27th, 2007 @ 5:39 pm
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