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I was saying that the author didn't do a good job of being clear (which is often by design in these sorts of articles-- clear language is seen as anti-artful) s

• EliRivers 11y ago
  Well, I read the same article and in my opinion you've missed an awful lot. Your summary picks out one small aspect, and present that as the whole point. It's not a scientific paper that can have the finding compressed into an abstract (or as the hipsters say now, a "tldr"). It's a discussion; it's meant to engage you, and trying to pick out a single point as the summary is like saying the point of hiking is to travel from A to B. It even criticises inaccessible literary analysis: "...the problem with “academic” literary analysis is that too often it sounds like talking at the reader or, worse, talking down to him or her." So is it massively lacking in self-awareness, if it suffers this problem itself? I didn't find it at all difficult to read, but then English is my first language so that will always be an advantage I have in reading English. I think this writing is clear, but you're trying to read it like a mathematical derivation or the write-up of an experiment.