Since I'm on a "plain language" kick at the moment, I thought I'd share this.
The University of Chicago Writing Program has created a fun "Write your own academic sentence" program. You too can produce some turgid prose like the deathless "The historicization of post-capitalist hegemony clarifies the position of the linguistic construction of the gendered body."
Give it a spin here:
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm
See also this post.
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