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Jargon, Jabber and Long, Long Words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Douglas Osborne
Douglas Osborne*
Affiliation:
California State College, Long Beach, California
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Abstract

A plea is made for more careful and less involved and pompous writing on the part of archaeologists. It is pointed out that the so-called scientific-scholarly writing, at its worst, inhibits both expression and comprehension.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1968 , pp. 382 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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