[Blennos]

I have deliberately used words in a way that confuses rather than clarifies.

There is a lot of this going around in academia these days. Many so-called "scholarly" papers, especially in the humanities, are so poorly written, so filled with arcane baffle-gab nonsense, as to be difficult for anyone to understand.

[Iron Munro]

Many so-called "scholarly" papers, especially in the humanities, are so poorly written, so filled with arcane baffle-gab nonsense, as to be difficult for anyone to understand.

Stylistically, too much Obama, not enough Hemingway.

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over"

-- Ernest Hemingway