> The reason that "jargon" gets used is that if you had to explain what "discour
> e theory"means every time you wanted to use the word, you'd never get to _say_
> anything: you'd spend all your time defining words.                   ven disc
>
> M. Tepper
> Brown University
 
There is, however, the tremendous danger that participants are
simply convincing themselves they are actually communicating, or
that the subject of their discussion has an objective reality.
This is largely the case in obscure academic areas such as
semiotics and film theory, where it has been oh-so-trendy to be a
neo-Marxist (until the recent collapse of Marxist credibility),
and populate one's prose with all sorts of taken-for-granted
self-delusions.
 
I say if you can't say it simply, something is probably fishy.