On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> If nothing else, the list of stuff Carcaroth provided that you wrote >> off is a pretty good list of fundamental debates in the question of >> how to read sources and what they mean - debates that have >> ramifications in all fields. To declare them irrelevant to our >> process >> is... problematic. > > I didn't write off the subjects, I just wrote off reading about them > when they are written using a bunch of made up words. If someone would > like to summarise the debate in English, I'd be very interested to > read it.
The debate is in English. > There are appropriate uses of jargon, but the way lit crit > uses it is just designed to make the author look clever. That's flatly untrue. The jargon is there for a reason. Jargon free summaries lose vast amounts of the content. > When it > becomes impossible to tell the difference between the real thing and > satire, you know something has gone horribly wrong. I don't know about you, but I have no problems along this line. -Phil _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
