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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you know the academic jargon is bad when you can translate it into french and the sentence is almost the exact same

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

French scholars are famous for their mastery of obscurantism. That's what this is called.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh don't even get me started about french philosophers - philosophy in general is very guilty of this, but french are absolutely the worst. Entire books of complete jargon where the point seems to be to sound as fancy as possible without as little content as possible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

or as Freud put it:

“So, I gave my lecture yesterday. Despite the lack of preparation, I spoke quite well and without hesitation, which I ascribe to the cocaine I had taken before hand. I told about my discoveries in brain anatomy, all very difficult things that the audience certainly did not understand, but all that matters is that they get the impression that I understand it.”