On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:

>In that case, Geoff does get to blame it on Foucault. I think it is utter BS.
>It seems to me that people use academeze because 1. They want to sound like
>they know more than they do, 2. They want to sound like they know more than
>you do, and 3. They want to make their writing exclusive and inaccessible to
>all but those they believe are on their level.

And (as most anyone working in CRM can attest to) any report written for
a federal or state government agency is subjected to a process guaranteed
to remove any trace of readability or user-friendliness.  After ten years
writing reports for a state DOT, I would imagine that it would become
nearly impossible to turn out legible prose of any sort.

--Dan Marcel
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My views positively do not reflect those of my employer, the University of
Tennessee Transportation Department. :)