"The truth is, most US academic prose is appalling: pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipedalian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead."Seen on Hacker news. See also this article on business writing.
-- David Foster Wallace, in Authority and American Usage
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival
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