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sewn a year ago was a model of obscure clarity:
“What impresses itself upon us is the fact of finitude’s excessive nature, not only becuase of the inappropriability of its meaning but, as the experience of sheer exposition, because of the way it refuses to disclose itself fully.”
Or even partly.
Educators speak their own dialectical Gook. The Ohio Department of Education issued a guideline for teachers of writing: “Assessment should tap the correctedness of concepts and the student’s ability to access interrelated chunks of information. Student understanding should be demonstrably integrated and structured.”
Mind you, that was from a manuel on clear writing.
To be sure, every business and profession has its own jargon. Teenagers and bank robbers speak in an argot that they alone can comprehend. Gobbledegook, I am suggesting, is something else. It is the equivalent of the process (the process!) by which the defensive squid squirts its inky goo.
Peering through their own murk, squid writers dimly perceive their intended meaning. Ordinary readers cannot perceive much of anything at all.
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