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Couldn’t agree more. Know someone in the art history field, and all their academic texts are insufferable. People aren’t trying to deliver a point in the simple
by b3kart 7y ago
Couldn’t agree more. Know someone in the art history field, and all their academic texts are insufferable. People aren’t trying to deliver a point in the simplest way possible, instead they engage in some sort of linguistic masturbation. Obscure words, lengthy sentences, intricate syntactic constructions, etc. I assume this is some sort of a signalling method: “You can barely understand what I am taking about, and you don’t know half of the words, so I must be smart and this text must be important.”
- kick 7y agoall their academic texts are insufferable [...] linguistic masturbation. Obscure words, lengthy sentences, intricate syntactic constructions, etc. You mean, "Every CS/Engineering Textbook Since Carver A. Mead stopped writing them"? I don't think you're wrong: academics are insufferable. But it's unfair to blame this solely on art folk: STEM is just as bad, if not worse. Mathematics is a thousand times guiltier of this than any other field.