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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 month ago (55 children)

quick rant

i'm so tired of over the top "intellectual" vocabulary in academia. a lot of concepts could be explained with simple words and would get the point across just as well, or better, and additionally make the conversation more accessible to those outside of a specific field. Why do you need to use big smart words to explain simple things? Is it because it tickles your ego when people need 10 minutes to comprehend one sentence? argh

[–] LazerFX 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm academia? How about Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that should be written (at least at synopsis level) clearly and for the casual reader. However, anything mathematics related and... Fuck you, you don't know how to calculate an integral? Git gud, scrub.

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

In high school, I used to be frustrated by this as well. But now, I've come to appreciate being able to get a reminder for a definition or a famous result just by googling and clicking on the resulting wikipedia page. Way better than having to find and dig through a badly-scanned pdf of a paper from the 70s which presented the definition that everyone in the field now uses.

[–] LazerFX 1 points 1 month ago

I've nothing against the page having more technical farther down the page... I've done that with some computing articles that I'm qualified to talk about - simplify the description for the layman, put the technical description underneath...

Math nerds just don't.

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