furthermore, you simply buttress what he said by indicating that those who don't ranslate are snobs. that's just a short way to say what you said in the first paragraph: snobs.
oh, don't mind me. i have to put on a couple coats of sparkly hot pink nail polish for my job interview tomorrow.
At 08:21 PM 12/15/2006, joanna wrote:
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>
>>And a good
>>deal of marvelous scholarship of the last 40 or 50 years has strongly
>>questioned many features of that old account. Some of this scholarship
>>would annoy our clarity fetishists -- the authors don't translate their
>>greeek quotations.
>Carrol, this is insulting. I have never complained about scholarship, I
>complained about a deliberately obfuscating jargon that developed in the
>late seventies and that served no purpose except to render the
>intelligentia politically useless and to create a "private" academic
>language whose aim was to further differentiate among the thousands of
>candidates for every single job.
>
>
>(But, in my dissertation I did translate all my latin and greek
>quotes....as should everyone who doesn't have a giant stick up their butts.)
>
>Joanna
>
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