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Nov. 5th, 2015 08:15 pmOkay, how come FB and DW posts and whatnot are comprehensible words but book pages aren't?
Like. "A number of communities of woodcarvers, metalworkers, and cloth weavers sprang up around the Asante capital, Kumasi, and became the basis for a distinctive culture harnessed to the Asante state through deliberate means of co-optation and royal patronage." What does that even MEAN. What are these words. They look like English. Except for "Asante" and "Kumasi", which are clear from context, I know what they all individually mean. It should not take me TEN bloody minutes to parse FIVE bloody pages EVEN in academese.
I need another vacation.
Like. "A number of communities of woodcarvers, metalworkers, and cloth weavers sprang up around the Asante capital, Kumasi, and became the basis for a distinctive culture harnessed to the Asante state through deliberate means of co-optation and royal patronage." What does that even MEAN. What are these words. They look like English. Except for "Asante" and "Kumasi", which are clear from context, I know what they all individually mean. It should not take me TEN bloody minutes to parse FIVE bloody pages EVEN in academese.
I need another vacation.