tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4586410306123465401..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: What's Wrong with this Text?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64720857479264206612015-10-28T13:29:51.231-07:002015-10-28T13:29:51.231-07:00What is striking about "Humanities-speak"...What is striking about "Humanities-speak" is its lack of humanity. No human being can objectively digest it. It produces cerebral thought congestion. Fail.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88928593647908363902015-10-27T19:49:53.539-07:002015-10-27T19:49:53.539-07:00'Publish impenetrabilty or perish'.
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...'Publish impenetrabilty or perish'. <br /><br />:0d<br /><br />Sam - I'd heard it put : 'An intellectual is some one who has been educated beyond their competence.'<br /><br />-shoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32583800707142721582015-10-27T14:33:54.154-07:002015-10-27T14:33:54.154-07:00What's wrong? More than one thing. It's ...What's wrong? More than one thing. It's confusing, and I'm sure, deliberately so. It's written in Humanities-speak, which is designed to be impenetrable and exhibit the writer's ability to write it. The sentences appear to the indiscriminate eye to be consecutive thoughts, but one follows the other only in placement. I'm concerned that the author is brain-damaged, in the sense that, as Brother Dave Gardner has said, that he was "educated beyond his capacity to learn".Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com