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by krageon 430 days ago
if you write explicitly to not be understood you're not proving anything except that you're not a nice person
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It is fine if you are writing to a particular audience that will understand you. However even then essays written like this come off as only someone trained like me can figure out what this means and thus I must be great - even though a different writing style would be more accessible to not only the "layperson" but also their peers who are trained in that subject. As such I call this bad writing.