I find it ironic that... we ultimately have any readers with the energy or patience to care about language or the study of literature at all.
I thought the purpose of academic writing (at least in the inhumanities) was to repel the lay reader lest they challenge the value and relevance of what was being written thus upsetting the cozy taxpayer funded, self perpetuating oligarchy.
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I thought the purpose of academic writing (at least in the inhumanities) was to repel the lay reader lest they challenge the value and relevance of what was being written thus upsetting the cozy taxpayer funded, self perpetuating oligarchy.