Labor: Menial vs. Noble

[John Thornton]

The more time I lurk on this list the more emboldened I become to stick my
foot in my mouth. Am I correct in assuming you think most people speak the
way the majority of the posters to this list write? At least twice a week
this list sends me to my dictionary to check the meaning of something.
People don't speak this way on the shop floor as it were. Every specialty
has a jargon. People with higher levels of education generally have more
extensive vocabularies. Am I reading you correctly in thinking you believe
this to be false?
John Thornton


> 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. You are just going along with the mindless assumption
that of
> course if people have degrees they use a special language.
> Carrol