amitava::All this is funny, at least for a short while.When an academic friend of mine posted the abovementioned link on her facebook page, another friend asked in the comments section whether she could use the sentence generator to complete her dissertation.
That joke was a wonderfully precise one.
More than anyone else, it is the academic initiate, the graduate student or, in some cases, the young scholar seeking tenure, who must reveal his or her proficiency in the use of the sacred tongue.
Style is assumed to be a feature only of senior living, a part of what you do later in your career, when you have acquired the necessary academic credentials.
And till you have amassed the capital of years of professional membership, the luxury of innovation or originality is frowned upon as irresponsible and excessive.
Recitation by rote is encouraged.
It is to assure all, or at least some of us, that we belong to a community, or at least a tribe with shared rituals and a common language.
In a rather obvious way, then, the academy is the original random sentence generator.
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