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SEK: What are you doing?
STUDENT: Convincing you to give me an A?
SEK: Don’t be that guy.
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Thursday, 13 December 2012
What's another word for "Gah"?
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I just read your Lexicographical Lament. It kind of reminded me of reading Hombi Bhabha, but there's one problem -- it's too easy to follow. If there aren't 4-7 subjects with a different number of predicates and multiple impacted clauses per sentence, it ain't academese.
Posted by: mxyzptlk | Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 06:49 PM
Agreed, lots of big words, not enough sentences that require complex parsing to understand the point they're trying to make.
Posted by: spankminister | Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 06:52 AM