[lit-ideas] Re: Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:53:15 -0500 (EST)
O. K. is right that the author of
"Why Is Academic Writing So Academic?"
is expecting a tautologous reply.
"It wouldn't be academic if it were not academic".
McEvoy should object at this point that we are mitigating the force of
'so'. The question is:
"Why Is Academic Writing SO [emphasis mine. Speranza] Academic?"
and not the trivial
"Why Is Academic Writing Academic?"
And the logical form of 'so' is _so_ complex, to echo Witters.
----
In a message dated 2/25/2014 8:43:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx writes:
In a message dated 2/25/2014 5:48:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
pastone@xxxxxxxxx writes:
"diety"? Laughing...I would think it was a typo, but with mike, one never
can tell.
He is quoting from Geary:
On Feb 25, 2014 5:29 PM, "Mike Geary" <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>what kind of diety would create a Life Form that depends for its life on
eating other Life Forms?
----
As Geary notes, the _essence_ of academic writing (and also reading, if I
may otiosely add -- since, as Emily Dickinson once wrote (and read), "Why am
I writing all this stuff if I shall be the only one to read it?") is
_theological_:
deity (n.) Look up deity at Dictionary.comc.1300, "divine nature;" late
14c., "a god," from Old French deité, from Late Latin deitatem (nominative
deitas) "divine nature," coined by Augustine from Latin deus "god," from PIE
*deiwos (see Zeus).
Agustine thought that 'deus' was not enough. He needed a 'deitas'.
Or not.
"Deus" was possibly being abused by Augustine's time, hence the need to
coin 'deity' (deitas). Deus shares the root with Sanscr.: dī, div- (dyu-), to
gleam: dyāus (Gr. ζεύς), heaven: dévas, God; cf. Gr. διος, εὐδία;
but not θεός, Curt. Gr. etym. 503 sqq.. a god, a deity (for syn. cf.:
divus, numen).
And so on.
Cheers,
Speranza
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
