[PEN-L:30647] Re: RE: Re: academic lingo

[Waistline2@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/27/02 1:52:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jdevine@xxxxxxx writes:


> I think you're right. Many times on pen-l, I've railed against the Mandarin Mentality of academics, who use all sorts of unneeded jargon or math in order to make their ideas seem profound (or to get tenure, or whatever). 
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> But the idea of "a new pseudo-mathematical language that would make meaningless debates impossible and force some form of responsible analysis" has been used for this purpose. 
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> Prof. Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine 


The question is how to express oneself in the way that peoples in America think things out. This requires a profound materialist assessment of cultural specificity of various classes and is subject to the thinking of the individual. 


Melvin P