Apparently gobbledegook is an infectious disease

[jadesfire]

Proof that management text books are not the only sufferers:

"As so often happens in legends, historical actuality must have receded behind the lineaments of stories that gratified special cultural desires, from among the intelligentsia in this case."
from "The Great Library of Alexandria Burnt: Towards the history of a symbol"

I mean, I know what it means, but really, "lineaments"? Someone's just showing off at that point...

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Don't you just want to thwap authors with a hefty copy of a dictionary when they do stuff like that? There should be some sort of requirement that academic writing not be so dense you have to wade through it.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

It's in "The Journal of the History of ideas" which is mostly philosophy and semiotics, but really, there's no excuse for this. They don't seem to realise that being obscure shows that they are annoying, not that they're clever.

[amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were being paid by the letter, instead of by the word. *grin*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*snort* That would explain it, yes :D

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

Oh, look, Mama - there's Prententiousness Blvd!

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I just think he's practising for his next game of scrabble...

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

"I posess an expanded vocabulary. Allow me to pontificate."

*groan*

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Yup, the whole article reads more or less like that (as well as containing almost no actualy content...)

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I thought gobbledegook was what goblins speak...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

*grin* You know, I could believe that this was written by a goblin...