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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think the point is that academic writers use large terms, despite using them wrong, when diminutive ones would suffice.

They use big words for the sake of using big words. Whether they make any sense whatsoever, is entirely beside the point.

The text, as I understand it is essentially saying the same thing, using big words to obfuscate that they're actually saying something rather boring and simple, which also has the point of obfuscating the meaning of the text to anyone who isn't an academic; aka someone who isn't used to such nonsensical word play.

There's a good reason I've avoided any work in academic fields. They incorrectly use terms, which just muddies the water on what the hell they're actually saying. Not only because the terms are big/less known, but because they're often used wrong.

IMO, academics are morons who like to sound smart.

... Do you concur?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think that there's a higher concentration of morons in academia than in larger society. However, their professional experience is pretty different from the so called 'real world' so they definitely can have some unfathomable blind spots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I agree with this, especially that the number of morons isn't higher than society at large, and therein lies the problem with society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not unlike LLMs. How curious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Socioeconomic encryption. Fun fact: the Chinese written language was focused on this concept — and Korean focused on doing the opposite, in fact.