Posted 4 years, 5 months ago around lunchtime by oso
So, I’m sitting at the Grove Cafe at UCSD with my homie Revaz and he keeps asking me about all these terms from articles he has to read for his classes. Here are a few of them:
Gayle Rubin’s homosocial theory is interesting, but I’ve got a problem with social scientists who turn allusions into adjectives when simple words carry the same meaning. A great writer presents complicated arguments clearly and simply, not the other way around. Why write Manichaeistic when you really mean dualistic?
Word.
I think scholars and academics tend to be pedantic (ironic?) in their word choice as both a defense mechanism to hide their ideas from being seen clearly and because that’s the way they are trained to write.
I think you’re exactly right. I wish it would change.
Wait, what does ironic mean?
A traffic jam when you’re already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It’s meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
haha - remember how they used to play that song all freshman year on that damn morning announcement thing?