beyourownboyfriend:

I can’t stand the unnecessary use of alienating high brow language in most academic texts. It’s like it’s used as a secret password to keep ‘the wrong kind of people’ out from entering into the club (the club being knowledge of course). They use language as a way of building up walls that you have to plot your way through like a maze. Surely the mark of a good academic text, of any text that is used to educate or expand understanding, should be its accessibility and clarity. When works lock people out who wish to access them, then they only speak to the people who are already in the room who already have knowledge. It’s all a gross congratulatory circle jerk.