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Re:Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? by graycat on Monday January 26, 2015 @06:43PM (#8950394)
> to describe a phenomenon there's already a perfectly dreadful word for.

Gee, in high school I was taught that a preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with!

Re:Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? by jonnathanson on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @02:13PM (#8955035)
For whatever it's worth, I saw what you did there and attempted to re-upvote you. Well played, sir.
Re:Why Is Academic Writing So Academic? by graycat on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @04:52PM (#8956248)
Thank you!