Labor: Menial vs. Noble

[Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer]

>Demonstrate that "academic jargon" (as you define it) has
>appeared in any substantial number of posts on a given
>day.
>
>Then demostrate that the academic jargon is indeed
>a special jargon.
>
>I don't think you can do it. And I don't think you had
>anything in mind when you wrote this post. You are
>just going along with the mindless assumption that of
>course if people have degrees they use a special
>language.
>
>Prove it. Or admit that you were slandering several 10s of
>thousands of people.
>
>Carrol

My dear, upbeat, radiant Carrol: When I want to slander someone, or several
10s of thousands, I'm pretty direct about it, and usually go straight for
the balls and throat. My comment about academic jargon wasn't slander. Trust
me. As for examples, I don't save many of these posts, but I have two recent
ones by Yoshie -- not to single out wise Yosh, whose posts I usually enjoy
(when I understand them), but this is all I have at the moment. When I see
more, I'll let you know.


> The rejection of workerism should go together 
>with that of productivism (production for the sake of production, 
>driven by M-C-M') as well.

I have never heard this kind of language uttered by non-academics, nor by
workers themselves. For one thing, there's not one "motherfucker" or
"cocksucker" included. I know Yoshie's parents were working-class; but did
they talk this way? 


>Here's an entry from Samuel Pepys' diary to confirm your thought on 
>the prohibition being constitutive of pornography as genre:

Now, I don't know if this is jargon or just bad writing. But the meaning is
lost on me. Call me Rube.

DP