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I think a major difference is that when a professional has to coin new jargon, they are usually intending to achieve as much clarity as possible.

I've always thought of Derrida as some kind of shaman poet sorcerer who uses philosophy as the material for secretive experiments, which makes me not so upset when I can't understand him.

I think Derrida is treated rather poorly, even in taught philosophy. Just because a work has multiple possible interpretations, it doesn't mean it's obscurantist or bad.

A consensus in Computer Science is that monads are like burritos.