I'm just a boy, reading something written by people with PhD's, hoping the subject at the beginning of this sentence connects with the object at the end of it despite fifty-two intervening clauses.
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I used to work with a guy who used many parentheticals and strings of dependent clauses in his day to day speech. One day in a meeting, after a 5 minute question that ended in a declarative, I asked him, "Could you phrase that in the form of a question in twenty five words or less?"
Yeah, that may well be a part of it. I can be similar (tho I try to be aware & improve), but I think it stems in part from wanting to include as much context as possible to be understood as well as possible, but sometimes resulting in the opposite effect.
THHHHIIIIIIIIISSS OMG THIS. When Elmo figures put how to copyright, purchase and monetize punctuation, I'll go broke from commas and semicolons and parentheses.
Don’t be impressed. These people, with these purportedly lofty titles; what distinguishes them is not their intellectual prowess, but rather so their capacity to do what they’re told, their subservience, and their willingness to paint solely within the lines of society’s accepted circles.
1) learned horrendousness (their peers write that way); 2) fear of criticism (can't say it's wrong if you aren't sure you understand it); and 3) as usual, jargon keeps out the normies
When you literally cannot understand a sentence in an academic journal without reading it twice, because you need context for all those clauses, but that context doesn't arrive until the end of a five line sentence/paragraph. 🤣
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