A Compendium Of Academic Language And Its Peculiarly Specific Meanings
The entries are composed with a knowing wit. Some are twisty and loquacious, others witheringly economic. They're structured like jokes, and there's a light, nerdy thrill in following these paragraphs"crammed with technical terminology and seeming digressions"to the punch line. Naturally, a lot of the humor is self-directed, mocking the authors' own sense of seriousness.