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I am begging academics to use normal words (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oppobrium? Latifundium? Bellicose? Effete? Really? What the fuck is wrong with these people. These words are like paragraphs apart

Edit: just read the term "professional-cum-technocratic ethos" this shit is not normal and the author should be ashamed

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't tell me Parenti isn't much more readable and less jargony than other, more bourgeois historians

After hearing this for years I was taken aback by the forward to Blackshirts and Reds, followed by relief that the rest of the book wasn’t like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't remember that the preface of Blackshirts and Reds was more jargony, but here I am rereading it ATM and I can't argue with that. I'm guessing that he wrote it last and, as his motivation was sapped, put the least amount of effort into rewriting it. Just a guess though.

Honestly I fall into jargon in my field when I'm tired or lazy. Making things make normal sense takes extra effort.