Re: Lingua Franca Today
i'm glad that i could provide the service of heuristic....errrr...being a teaching tool for the silent audience of aspiring tech writers who come from academic backgrounds.
and i'm thrilled to have provided an opportunity to engage in the hobbyhorse of academic-bashing. you just don't hear that sort of thing often enough!
For the record, my comments about how language is used in academia come from within academia. I'm mostly just repeating the standard rhetorical analysis of academic discourse. It's true that I find much of academic discourse distasteful, while rhetoricians tend to be more neutral in their observations, but you could think of the analysis itself as being academics engaging in academic-bashing.
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