Sometimes you have to use complicated terms because you’re dealing with complicated ideas…
Other times it’s clear that the authors are just trying to pad the length of a paper and sound more pompous.
In Brazil we call this “enchendo linguiça”, which literally translates to “filling sausage”.
you’re dealing with complicated ideas
With many specific components or processes that must be differentiated between each other, and often the difference is negligible, abstract or hazy to the untrained eye.
A major turning point in one’s academic journey is when you go from struggling to compose a lengthy and impressive essay to struggling to compose a concise and accessible essay (otherwise known as the “too-short-and-basic to too-long-and-pompous shift”). Sometimes this takes leaving academia and realizing that your masterpiece work doesn’t mean shit if no one bothered to read it.
The more I see the nakedness of the emperor, the more impressed I am with the skill of the wizards who crafted his invisible clothes.
I expected him to aspire to become a politician until the last frame
