I think the idea of replacing "field" with "practicum" is that academics feel the need to play mind games to ensure that their work is completely incomprehensible unless you've paid for the ticket & joined the club.
I'm just waiting for someone to try growing something useful (carrots, perhaps?) in a practicum...
I think the idea of replacing "field" with "practicum" is that academics feel the need to play mind games to ensure that their work is completely incomprehensible unless you've paid for the ticket & joined the club.
I'm just waiting for someone to try growing something useful (carrots, perhaps?) in a practicum...
Growing up with a severe stutter (now largely gone) I was in constant pain of humilation and sought to compensate by drawing attention to my intellect. I would take every chance I could to display how smart I was, and later I hated myself for doing things like that and made a point of always choosing words for accuracy, never to impress.
And as many here doubtless know, we tend to despise most in others what we despise about ourselves; Wm. F. Buckley probably had the most dog-eared thesaurus in history, and on Firing Line his eyebrows would shoot up every time he managed to work in an unfamiliar word. I hated him.
But don't think this dumb-as-hell name change is to sound smart. I think it comes from the same moronic "inclusiveness" that gives us gems like "euronormative phallocentricity" and "cisnormativity."
Idiots. Idiots. Idiots.
I will defiantly go on using the generic "he" to compensate.
My mother couldn't stand Buckley either, and always referred to his "$64,000" words. She was no dummy either, she read a lot and had a much better vocabulary than most Americans, but she wasn't a pretentious ass about it.
Neither have I, but okay, let's embrace it... "'Practicum' slaves were different from 'house slaves' in that the former performed backbreaking work in the practica picking cotton and singing spirituals about how hard it was to work in a practicum.
I'll be practicuming <----Beavis & Butthead snigger--- questions later. Please join us for next week's lecture by a physicist who will address the newer question in woke scientific corners: Is Unified Practicum Theory Racist? Including its implications for gravity and magnetic practica.
I think the idea of replacing "field" with "practicum" is that academics feel the need to play mind games to ensure that their work is completely incomprehensible unless you've paid for the ticket & joined the club.
I'm just waiting for someone to try growing something useful (carrots, perhaps?) in a practicum...
Also, bonus, 'practicum' sounds way more pseudo-intellectual than 'field'.
Never use a simpler word or phrase when you can impress everyone with our academic intellectualism with silly jargonbabble.
Growing up with a severe stutter (now largely gone) I was in constant pain of humilation and sought to compensate by drawing attention to my intellect. I would take every chance I could to display how smart I was, and later I hated myself for doing things like that and made a point of always choosing words for accuracy, never to impress.
And as many here doubtless know, we tend to despise most in others what we despise about ourselves; Wm. F. Buckley probably had the most dog-eared thesaurus in history, and on Firing Line his eyebrows would shoot up every time he managed to work in an unfamiliar word. I hated him.
But don't think this dumb-as-hell name change is to sound smart. I think it comes from the same moronic "inclusiveness" that gives us gems like "euronormative phallocentricity" and "cisnormativity."
Idiots. Idiots. Idiots.
I will defiantly go on using the generic "he" to compensate.
My mother couldn't stand Buckley either, and always referred to his "$64,000" words. She was no dummy either, she read a lot and had a much better vocabulary than most Americans, but she wasn't a pretentious ass about it.
Grammarly tells me that my vocabulary places me in the top 1% of writers, and I've never seen "practicum" before.
Neither have I, but okay, let's embrace it... "'Practicum' slaves were different from 'house slaves' in that the former performed backbreaking work in the practica picking cotton and singing spirituals about how hard it was to work in a practicum.
I'll be practicuming <----Beavis & Butthead snigger--- questions later. Please join us for next week's lecture by a physicist who will address the newer question in woke scientific corners: Is Unified Practicum Theory Racist? Including its implications for gravity and magnetic practica.
I have a vast library of books on Quantum Practicum Theory.