>
><mailto:ccogan@telepath.com>Chris Cogan scribbled: people can
>judge for *themselves* whether my claims are likely true (or at
>least severely veridical).
>
>Silk here: People with common sense & few inferiority complexes can
>only "judge" your motives for continually employing "gobbledygook"!
>"severly veridical" indeed!
>I've got a virus scanner naturally used to do some "virus
>cleansing", too bad I haven't got one to do some gobbledygook
>cleansing! I'm not being facetious, I'm dead serious! While in
>college I had to wade through not only professors "jargon" but the
>overinflated egos of those who wrote many textbooks riddled with
>this gobbledygook! Here the students were struggling to learn
>something new & not only did we have to deal with the normal
>complexities of learning a new subject but also with the egos of
>those allegedly teaching us employing "double negatives &
>gobbledygook" to shore up their own pathetic egos & to (as they
>considered) demonstrate their superior intelligence! It was not at
>all unlike someone placing something (in this case information) in a
>maze & daring you to find it. Making it unduly difficult! There can
>be no excuse for this sadistic behavior!
I'm sorry people were so mean to you, but gosh, not everyone can be
the same amount smart. People who are smart and well educated should
all be kinder to people like you who are not as intellectually
fortunate.
>It was only after I had mastered a subject that I began to realize
>how completely superfulous & sadistic & counterproductive these
>gobbledygook tactics were. If I had a dollar for every time someone
>I was tutoring said to me "Silk the way you put it is real clear,
>why didn't the professor explain it this way?" I would roll my eyes
>& invariably say "because he was not there for you, you were there
>for him!" mr. cogan may indeed have some valuable contribution to
>make to this list however I'd hate to be a student in his class!
Yes, I'm sure it would be a miserable and embarrassing experience for
you. Especially when words are used that are outside your limited
vocabulary. Try memorizing a new word every day. It works!
Susan
-- ----------I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to shew why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction.
---Charles Darwin
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