• starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Because they’re being somewhat derisive and structured their sentences to be less comprehensible

    “…you have ironically demonstrated that a pre-existing functional understanding of the concepts at play is an important component of more advanced literacy.”

    Translation: being familiar with more words/concepts gives you the ability to understand what was said on a deeper level.

    This actually took more effort to write than the esoteric one, because I put in effort to make sure I’m not being esoteric for the sake of it. I’m not against using more vocab or higher level sentence structure, but the sentence I quoted is a perfect example of being verbose for no gain in understanding or richness in the sentence.