In searching for the Calvin and Hobbes “verbing weirds language” strip, I came across this entertaining piece of advice from Calvin:
It’s only too easy to make fun of academic writing, especially when it strikes the outsider as jargon-filled, and sometimes (as here) the mockery is amply justified. But the trick is to figure out when insider vocabulary has a point and when it’s mostly walling off things from the outsiders and showing off for the insiders.
December 10, 2013 at 12:10 am |
The Sokal hoax being the funniest example