Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:14:47 -0400
From: "Fragano S.J. Ledgister" <f.ledgis-AT-morehead-st.edu>
Subject: Re: academese


AMIT K GHOSH wrote:
> 
> I couldn't agree more with Tina Hitckcock about the convoluted language
> used in lit crit articles. I recently read Spivak's article and came to
> the conclusion that her 40 page academic-speak on "subaltern" could have
> been reduced to 2o without losing a thing.
> 
> why is academic-speak so inundated with convolutions, while we love
> fiction that is crisp and clear?
> 
> any takers...
> 

Whose academic-speak? Sociologists'? Physicists'? Political scientists'?
Literary scholars'? Economists'? Geographers'?...


> Amit Ghosh
> 
> MFA Student
> 
> UTEP


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