Education doublespeak, especially among academics who want to impress everyone with how intelligent they are, has been around for a long time. Even W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) commented on it, as you can see in these lyrics he wrote in 1881 for a song in the opera Patience:
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Education doublespeak, especially among academics who want to impress everyone with how intelligent they are, has been around for a long time. Even W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) commented on it, as you can see in these lyrics he wrote in 1881…
If you’re anxious for to shine
in the high aesthetic line
as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the terms of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
And everyone will say,
As you walk your mystic way,
“If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,
Why, what a singularly deep young man this deep young man must be?”
in the high aesthetic line
as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the terms of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
And everyone will say,
As you walk your mystic way,
“If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,
Why, what a singularly deep young man this deep young man must be?”
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Education doublespeak, especially among academics who want to impress everyone with how intelligent they are, has been around for a long time. Even W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) commented on it, as you can see in these lyrics he wrote in 1881…
الإزدواج بالكلام في المجال الأكاديمي موجود منذ زمن طويل، خاصة بين الأكاديميين الذين يرغبون بإبهار الجميع بمدى ذكائهم. حتى أنّ دبليو. س. غيلبرت علّق على هذه الظاهرة عام 1881 في أغنية له بأوبرا Patience قائلًا:
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If you’re anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, You must get up all the terms of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere. You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated…
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If You're Anxious For to Shine Dennis Olsen
From "Patience," The Australian Opera, 1995.
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https://youtu.be/xgeLpFTNn8g
Well I don't know much about relationships but over the years I have noticed a few things about the two sexes and I'd like to discuss them. Men and women; the big hairy, noisy male creatures and the smaller, smoother but nontheless quite noisy females. Here is all you need to know about them:
Women are crazy, men are stupid
- George Carlin🤦♂😂
Women are crazy, men are stupid
- George Carlin🤦♂😂
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https://youtu.be/VLdT95OhZTs
All the problems in the world can be traced to what fathers do to their sons
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And so excluded as they are from reproduction, men must find other ways to feel useful and worthwhile. As a result, they measure themselves by the size of their guns, the size of their cars, the size of their dicks, and the size of their wallets.
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All men cultures share a particular set of features; homophobia coupled with an oddly ironic, complete childlike trust in male authority. All men are attracted to powerful men. They also share a strong fear and dislike of women and this in spite of the pathological obsession with p****
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So as a result of all this repression of their feelings, the extent of the average man's emotional expression is the high five🤦♂😂😂😂😂😂
In an article in a 1982 issue of the Journal of Forecasting, prof. Scott Armstrong recommends that the aspiring scholar choose an unimportant topic, agree with existing beliefs, use convoluted methods, withhold some of the data, and write the article in stilted, obtuse prose. Armstrong reports that, in one study, academics reading articles in scientific journals rated the authors’ competence higher when the writing was less intelligible than when it was clear. Other studies conclude that obscure writing helps those who have little to say. In other words, in academia, as in most professions, doublespeak pays.
- Doublespeak, by William Lutz
- Doublespeak, by William Lutz
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Eve Adam – عزيز علي الركعه صغيره والشك جبير
ومما يذكره عزيز علي عن هذه المرحلة في سيرته ان رئيس الوزراء نوري السعيد زار الاذاعة عام 1956 اثناء تسجيله إحدى اغانيه اللاذعة مما اغاض (الباشا) وطلب القصائد المكتوبة بخط عزيز علي، ما اثار رعبه وظن انه سيرسل الى المعتقل مرة اخرى، وإذا به يفاجأ في اليوم التالي بطلب من مدير الاذاعة للذهاب لمكتب رئيس الوزراء، الذي وبخ عزيز علي وطلب منه عدم التركيز على الناحية السلبية في الحياة السياسية فقط، بل يجب ان ينظر إلى جانبها الإيجابي ايضا، وبشكل خاص ما حقق من انجازات مهمة، وعندما خرجا هو ومدير الاذاعة ونتيجة الرعب الذي احس به طلب من مدير الاذاعة ان يعفيه من تقديم اغانيه من الاذاعة العراقية، إلا ان المدير طمأنه وقال له إن (الباشا) كان يظن انك شيوعي، لكنه بعد ان اطلع على ما كتبت تأكد من انك لست كذلك، ومع ذلك اصر عزيز علي على موقفه، وما ان تلقفت جرائد المعارضة، وفي مقدمتها جريدة «الاهالي» القصة حتى بدأت حملتها على الحكومة، وبالغت في الامر حتى اوصلته الى ان رئيس الوزراء يدبر لاغتيال المطرب الساخر، ما أرعب عزيز علي أكثر، وأعاده بعد اسبوع قضاه قلقا من الاعتقال في أغنية معبرة هي «انعل ابو الفن»، ويذكر د. مصطفى جواد في حديث له مع الفنان، أنه كان ذات يوم عند (نوري باشا السعيد) الذي فتح الراديو ليستمع الى اغنية «أنعل أبو الفن»، التي كانت تذاع لاول مرة، سمعها للنهاية وقال للدكتور جواد (اسمع ابن الـ….انه يشتمني انا) وضحكا معا