If you've ever been frustrated with the language of so-called academia, then you ought to read this essay by George Orwell. It's long but good. I even laughed out loud a few times. Every textbook writer, every essayist, every academic journalist, every professor should read this.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Now look at this part of an essay that we had to read in another English class:
You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right
it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert
our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our
forefathers, and to betransmitted to our posterity — as an estate
specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference
whatever to any other more general or prior right. By this means our
constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity of its parts. We
have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and a House of
Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises,and liberties
from a long line of ancestors.
This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection,
or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without
reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result
of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to
posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the
people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a
sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission,
without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves
acquisition free, but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages
are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are locked fast as in
a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever.
What?
I am pretty sure this one thing that George Orwell is talking about. Needless to say, with six large pages of this to read in tiny print....I didn't get all the way through it.
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