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It would be misleading to say that only a majority of academic writing has unnecessary use of long words because this is almost universally true. I would guess
by tormeh 11y ago
It would be misleading to say that only a majority of academic writing has unnecessary use of long words because this is almost universally true. I would guess that it's north of 90%.
You talk about making no assumptions. I agree that this is excessive, but why can't an MSc within the relevant area be enough? Yes, you save some space by using a lot of jargon, but if you use a word only once in your article, would it kill to spell it out instead? And while jargon occasionally saves space, snobbish language never does.
- tertius 11y ago> And while jargon occasionally saves space, snobbish language never does. I think the points about specificity and word count really explains this. Snobbish language is going to kill word count except if you're talking about words used that are not required for specificity.
- tormeh 11y agoI didn't really understand your comment, but I was talking about passive-voice and words like "utilize", "enunciate" and "veracity".