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Why Aren't You Using Academic Buzzwords, /lit/? 2017-03-27 08:00:02 Post No. 9298645
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Why Aren't You Using Academic Buzzwords, /lit/? 2017-03-27 08:00:02 Post No. 9298645
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Why Aren't You Using Academic Buzzwords, /lit/?
Anonymous
2017-03-27 08:00:02
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>Be me
>CogitoErgoSum.flac
>At university, doing an Arts degree, and I'm wanting to major in English
>First lecture. I'm excited
>"Now, there are some words you'll have to learn and remember throughout this course. These words are..."
>Ears pique
>"Verisimilitude," the lecturer says. "Remember it by thinking very-similar. O.K. Next word: mimesis..."
>I almost laugh that she said "meme" but realise soon enough that these words are pseud as shit
>Now every lecture and lesson, the speaker will oft slap in "mimesis" or "verisimilitude" and how it relates to the text we're reading
>Eventually go insane at the very pseudary of this
>Last week, looking at Margaret Atwood
>Pretty much fall off the edge
>"Meta-fiction... Verisimiltudinous and mimetic... Margaret Atwood uses the dog in her short story to imply non-reality."
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Autodidactism > Academia
Save your money and drop the class, chief.
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Why didn't you know these words before?
>words are inherently "pseud"
You're a dumb guy.
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>>9298651
For you
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>>9298645
>"Now, there are some words you'll have to learn and remember throughout this course. These words are..."
This could only happen at a plebtier American university
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>>9298701
Australia, actually
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>>9298723
Ah you anglophone cunts are all the same, really
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>>9298645
>illiterate US/UK students need word list when in university because their high school suck
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>>9298902
The latter one. Idk what that first one is. Give me ur deets, anon. I wanna meet a fellow /lit/izen at uni
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>>9298645
>brainlet overwhelmed by the requirement to understand two words
wew
>words are pseud
kys
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>>9298648
>academia
>paying money
I thank god every single day that I wasn't born a burger. I get benefits that are worth like 3x my fee, which is like 400 bucks a year. Not a single penny in debt, actually managed to save up a few grand.
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Why do humans do these things? Is our need to appear intelligent really that important?
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>>9298645
FUCK DRUMPF AND FUCK WHITE PEOPLE!
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>>9299601
Fuck off, /pol/yp
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