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You can just learn new words it's possible

Oh come on, "really" is quite a normal word!

I love how some Latin-based words are fancy and complicated in English while being totally normal in Romance languages. In Portuguese, Latifúndio is like a basic word everybody uses when discussing agribusiness. Same goes for plenty of medical stuff. English speakers go to the ENT if their throat hurts. We go to the otolaryngologist, otorrinolaringologista or just otorrino.

Sometimes it's better to be specific and removed with "parasacral drain and attempted aspiration" (we entered through the butt to try and drain an abcess) instead of the one surgeon who (different op) said "cyst drained in her pussy" 💀💀💀

inside me are two wolves

one says just look up the words its not that hard and you might learn something

the other one says academics are deliriously gatekeeping and inflating their science to make it seem more than it really is

Academics use special words because they have specific meanings that are unaffected by the changing meanings of casual use. This is why engineering terminology often sucks, because people already have an idea of what power, work, stress, strain, etc. mean, but often they are wrong, from the standpoint of physics. A layperson may think that pushing against a wall and becoming exhausted means that they have done work on the wall, when from a physics standpoint this isn't true, because the meaning of work in physics and everyday life are different. If you try to explain the term work in everyday words, you end up spending a sentence every time: the act of force applied across a distance the object moved, measured as the crow flies from the beginning to the end point. That is why most scientific fields come up with their own terms. They are shorter than explaining it every time, they are specific, and they are unambiguous. It is not gatekeeping when Google exists, comrades.

Gold-pressed latifundium

I am begging communists to use normal words

Organization of Production? Dialectics? Ascent From the Abstract to the Concrete? Vulgar Materialism? Really? What the fuck is wrong with these people. These words are like paragraphs apart

Most of those are just normal words

IMO people use jargon to make their not very smart idea seem smarter. I see it all the time.

The smartest people are ones who can explain things without resorting to a thesaurus. I think of Parenti.

Edit: Since this is gaining controversy, I'll say that I've written, edited, and published many a grad level research paper. Believe me when I say that hiding behind jargon is a really thing that people do, especially in higher education. Reducing unnecessary jargon is also something that many a researcher has been urged to do. This idea isn't original to me, I'm just repeating it here.

There are a lot of great criticisms to be made about academics and how they eventually get caught up in little self-contained idea vortices that don't actually matter to the world at large; they lose sight of how small their field is in the grand scheme of things and start to project its importance in their life to the wider society.

However the thing about using words like this: they are specific. It's important to learn that just because two words are synonyms does not mean they are interchangeable. Some words are more correct for the specific idea you are trying to communicate.

My gf and I have a joke where we come up with absurd thesis titles with incomprehensible jargon based on random stuff around us.

The Faba Antinomy: The Ursification of the Digital Left Hegemony and the Paradigm of the New Hexagon

professional-cum-technocratic ethos

bellicose and effete have both been used on

Oh you're not interested in studying lacunae? You know lacunae, a very normal word that is used in place of saying the cumbersome word gaps (ノ°益°)ノ

I was listening to a podcast and they hit me with "syncretic murder cult" and "hagiography" within minutes of each other.

Based on what I remember looking up a week ago:

Syncretic - a politics or religion that is composed of disparate sources mixed together.

Hagiography - a biography of a saint or a savior figure.

the thing is, all your english words are weird and foreign, i dont see how "vole" is any more or less normal than "bellicose", "victuals" or "spilth".

Its the in-group speech of academy and a language signifier that you are a not a poor.

Harry potter ass words

I talked to an academic who wrote like this once and she said, “It just comes out like that in the first draft and I can never bring myself to do revisions beyond the ones requested during peer review”

I like flowery language, but I do want to strangle Jordan Peterson everytime he trots out "presupposition". You're not fancy, for that word! That's standard paper-writing bullshit.

I was in a bad mood the other day and blocked someone for trying to sound smart by using the word "salubrious"

but then they would have learned these words for nothing !

And they wouldnt signal to each other that they belong to the class that learned these words.

The author graduated cum laude

thought I was in Badposting for a second

"professional-cum-technocratic ethos"

Yuck.

Bellicose? Effete?

I like and use those.

Opprobrium?

I might use that online if I want to be fancy and/or silly.

Latifundium?

What the heck.

latifundium (plural latifundia)
A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves.
Etymology: mid 17th century from Latin, from latus "broad" + fundus "landed estate", partly via Spanish.