Textbook reform (another rant)

[cf_shadow]

Just because you have a PhD does NOT mean you should use ridiculously long, hopelessly obscure words in your writing for the sole purpose of showing off your huge vocabulary. The purpose of any language is communication, and if you happen to be writing a textbook, you should be writing it to educate people... on the topic of the book, not the

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[ateji]

(I see nothing wrong with hegemony... I first learned it from a sci-fi novel.)

Otherwise, good god yes!

Can I add a note to the general public of stupidity known as the Internet? Using random Japanese words that you cannot pronounce does not make you look cool! It makes you look ignorant. You speak English already; there is no need to replace a perfectly good English word with one in Japanese in an otherwise English sentence. Die, all of you.

[ateji]

Hegemony isn't a problem until you find yourself reading book after book where the authors have trouble getting through a single paragraph without it. Then it becomes repetitive and monotonous. You'd think that these incredibly intelligent people with such amazing vocabularies would be able to find other words to use sometimes.

[ateji]

I've always felt weird using the same term over and over in just a five page paper.

[ateji]

as you should

[bluefalcon16]

I had dinner with Winston Churchill's grandson (a staunch proponent of jingoism, vegetarianism, and Protestantism) the other day, and he told me that he had worms.

Nevertheless the fact remains that when eating a croissant and mulling over the advantages of cronyism versus nepotism, one must ponder the theological implications, which, consequently, are staggering. Simply discussing the vicissitudes of such hedonistic and narcissistic issues can make even the most loquacious person sore in his medulla oblangata.

I am a postmodernist humanist.

Sorry, but I figured someone had to say that. Please don't catch me on fire.

[cf_shadow]

It is clear to me that you are a member of the lumpenproletariat.