Allen is perhaps exempt, given his background, but it seems to me that
psychologists complaining about the turgidity of other scholars' prose
is a very dangerous game to be play. If anyone is guilty of
intentionally making relatively simple ideas seem complicated by giving
them inordinately arcane labels in order to render them "scientific," it
is psychologists.
My personal (anti-)favorite has always been the behaviorists' penchant
for using "perseverate" whne they mean simply to repeat or continue.
Chris
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Allen Esterson wrote:
> On 8 May 2010 Martin Bourgeois wrote re the Postmodern Generator:
>
>> What I especially love about it is, if my wife had handed one
>> of these in for any of her grad English courses, she would
>> have undoubtedly gotten an A and been encouraged to publish it.
>> In fact, these are much more lucid than some of the
>> postmodernist/deconstructionist stuff she was reading back then.
>>
>
> For snippets of the real thing, see:
>
> http://denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm
>
> Allen Esterson
> Former lecturer, Science Department
> Southwark College, London
> allenester...@compuserve.com
> http://www.esterson.org
>
> ________________________________
> From: Christopher D. Green [chri...@yorku.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 1:56 PM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: Re: [tips] What Academics Are Writing About These Days...
>
> The Postmoderism Generator has been around for years (I think I have
> even
> posted to TIPS about it in the past). But I believe it was a spinoff of
> the
> Kant Generator frm the early 1990s. I hadn't been able to find the Kant
> version
> for a long while, but someone seems to have reported (a version of) it
> again:
> http://interconnected.org/home/more/2000/08/kant/
>
> Every time you reload, you get a new one.
>
> Chris
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>
> Christopher D. Green
> Department of Psychology
> York University
> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
> Canada
>
> 416-736-2100 ex. 66164
> chri...@yorku.ca<mailto:chri...@yorku.ca>
> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
>
> ==========================
>
> Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
>
> This is from one of my all-time favorite Websites - the random
> postmodernism
> generator hosted (I think, still) by Monash University in Melborune.
> ....Scott
>
> P.S. As Mike P. surely knows, you'll get a different postmodern essay
> each
> time you click on the link. Hilarious....
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu>]
> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 11:56 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Cc: Mike Palij
> Subject: [tips] What Academics Are Writing About These Days...
>
> http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
>
> ... or a reasonable facsimile of it. Who knows, this might
> be useful for courses in cognitive psychology and the psychology
> of language.
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu>
>
> P.S. ;-)
>
>
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