Just found a wonderful article on the misuse of English in academia. Excerpt:
In recent years leftist academics have been enraptured by Empire, a 500-page anti-globalization book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, published in 2000. Empire collects all possible criticisms of free trade and wraps them in prose like this: “In the logic of colonialist representations, the construction of a separate colonized other and the segregation of identity and alterity turns out paradoxically to be at once absolute and extremely intimate.”
To commit a sentence like that is to subtract from the sum of human knowledge.
The View from the Foothills 
I had a friend who focused so hard on getting the right words that he lost sight of the sentences, let alone constructing suitable paragraphs.
Will, if I ever send you a review like that, feel free to virtually “smack me upside the head.”
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No worries…I’ll break out the clue stick, and have at you!
Doesn’t seem too likely, though.
(Just for the record, I usually do fix minor problems as I find them.)
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