Scientists Reveal How They Use Over The Top Language In Order To Hide Their Stupid Mistakes

This explains absolutely everything!

Jack

• Published in Funny
• May 22, 2019

I think it would be safe to say that not many of us out here in the real world would read scientific journals.

Evidently though some people do, and those people have just as much trouble as you might expect attempting to wade their way through the sea of unnecessary jargon used by professionals in those reports.

Recently through the power of collective thought on the internet though, we have been handed a hilarious set of examples of times when all of that ridiculously complicated language was actually just a way of covering up really funny mistakes that these scientists have made in the field.

It began with this example from user blueelectricangels.

“Some language demands are related to text types, which have specific conventions with respect to format, expected content, tone, common grammatical structures (e.g., if…, then…), etc. The language demands of other tasks are not as predictable and may vary depending on the situation,”

they write.

Froggy boi

Turns out there is a never ending amount of these examples if you just dig into field reports a little bit.

But how does one develop academic language? The ;California State University, Northridge ;say there’s no one way to go about it.

”For text types, it is important to make the conventions explicit, often providing graphic organizers when students are first learning how to produce the text type,”

they write.

“For less predictable language tasks, students need to understand the nature of the task and the range of possible responses and associated language. When students are just learning to use a particular form of academic language, they will need more scaffolding and support. For example, an English teacher trying to develop students’ abilities to follow up on a student comment might invite students to brainstorm different types of responses (e.g., agreement with elaboration, agreement with qualification, disagreement) together with some typical sentence starters or grammatical structures for each type of response.”

I think this is it.

What a sentence.

Correct.

I think this is also it.

Incredible use of scientific funding.

This is what NASA have been doing with their funding all these years...

Jack