I want to write a fictional academic paper which appears to prove or disprove, or maybe agree or disagree with… something. I want to use as few common English language terms as possible. I hope you can help.
I don’t think words like “validate” are… dense enough. What’s a better term?
Nouns, verbs and and adjectives, I need 'em all.
I also need a subject for the paper. My first thought was “Goldberg’s Conjecture”, but when I actually looked up what it was, I thought that as a pure mathematical question it might be a bit too limited a subject. Maybe something related to physics or chemistry or even genetics would be better. But something like “Superstring Theory” doesn’t sound complex enough. It’s not strictly necessary that the paper be written about a genuine scientific conundrum, but it would be nice. If you know some theory name that might ring some kind of bell in educated minds, but they’d have to look it up unless they worked in that particular field, please throw it in. That would be a perfect name.
Ideally the final product will be linguistically technically correct, but virtually incomprehensible.
FYI, I have decided to use this as the concept behind another run at the Bulwer Lytton contest next year. As far as I know, it is an entirely novel approach to the contest entries.
“Atomic State Localization In Rubidium” is half of the title of my brothers Physics dissertation. I’d wager most people wouldn’t have any idea what the hell it meant.
How about “The Anderson Transition” (Also something real, though I have no idea what).
Wow! That’s not exactly what I was thinking of but it’s pretty damn close. I’d never heard of this before. That’s very impressive, and I salute the guy!
Well, what ultimately gets submitted won’t even add up to an abstract, so there’s no reason it can’t be most factually correct as well as linguistically correct. But the more I write, the more I will have to stray from fact, as I certainly don’t expect to do any actual research about the subject matter. Other than understanding it enough to choose plausible descriptors, of course.
And I will certainly mine Sokol’s paper for useful terms. Thanks.
“Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business: the Prince Consort, who is dead; a German professor, who has gone mad; and I, who have forgotten all about it.” – attributed to Lord Palmerston
I am leaning toward making it about some kind of sociopolitical issue as I have now locked in the word “hegemony”. Ooh, and I can use the Schleswig-Holstein Question as a date reference.