Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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2008-05-03 16:17:54

If you want similar amusement, check out Pootwattle and Smedley (http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/index.htm). Pootwattle and his virtual critic Smedley have classic cases of academic diarrhea. Be sure not to miss the site’s technical diagnosis.

Want all that Piled Higher and Deeper? The Postmodernism Generator (http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/) delivers “academese” in considerable bulk.

The larger trouble here is Dartmouth’s cleaning out its own literary-academic stables.