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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I don't read much (/any) academic writing, but does it really misuse words the way the link portrays?

Eg

  • academic writing isn't prose, like that's almost the definition of prose.
  • intra-specialized doesn't mean anything (the intra prefix didn't work on adjectives)
  • "obfuscating ... accessibility" means making it difficult to see that it is accessible, where the author probably actually wants to say "reducing the ability of outsiders to access the meaning"

I get that it is satire, but imo it would be better satire if he put in the work to actually make it mean something. Unless the point is that academic writers misuse thesauruses this badly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's saying that it uses terminology that is well-understood, specific and explicit within the field, but depends on a common understanding of the language used. So people outside the field are unable to understand it, even though they would be able to understand the actual concepts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I agree that that's probably what it's trying to say, but I don't think it actually says that.

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