Writing some of my dissertation, and found this... in my own head.

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Moreover, especially in light of the pioneering nature of the discussion area, this means that the text becomes a mostly predictive venture, which while helpful, cannot be used as an analytical tool, unless by comparing what was thought to become with what did.

TENSE. OWIE.

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[sellars88.livejournal.com]

That could make sense if I had a clue what you were talking about. It sounds good though.

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

I was talking about the predictions a 2001 book about the Internet had made. Even when you know that, it's still a bit *head boggly*

[sellars88.livejournal.com]

Not particularly the statement itself made perfect sense, but the context was confusing the crap out of me.

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

I realised that after I posted it - it's so horribly vague, eugh.

[james0289.livejournal.com]

Makes sense; I like it. :D
I've been reading a lot of scientific journals this week so I'm used to deciphering this kind of scientific mumbo-jumbo. :D

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

I...it does? :S

I swear, if scientific journals actually wrote in plainer English, they'd be so much shorter. Like, FIVE BOOKS shorter.

[wsdante.livejournal.com]

Trans: I have such an inflated opinion of my command of language, (albeit inaccurate), that it manifests itself in an inability to describe simple and self-evident concepts without resorting to the scribing of utter, long-winded bollocks.

ie: A prediction of what 'might' happen isn't good for any use other than to wait and see how accurate it was.

[wsdante.livejournal.com]

Sorry, G. There are times when you have to just 'step away from the books and keep your hands where you can see them'.

If you get hit with a fit like that again, go and do something that doesn't involve vocabulary for an hour or so; take a walk, go get a burger, anything.

The alternative means your ears might start bleeding :(

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

I hate this kind of language - the one that makes every thing so vague and necessarily complicated; it's just to make people look good and that style had totally gone to my head :/

I read some other dissertations instead, ones that sounded much smoother on the ears, and made sense too, so that was helpful. But yes, I completely agree. Academic reading can be so painful sometimes.

TBF, I was trying to discuss what somebody had said then about what now could be like, which is difficult to explain at any rate :S