Re: Footnotes in email messages: WAS OK. That's funny.

Posted by gepr on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Footnotes-in-email-messages-WAS-OK-That-s-funny-tp7598132p7598133.html

Dude! These are NOT footnotes. They're end notes. >8^D And, they're anything but lazy. It takes a lot of work to figure out what symbols to use, make sure they're in the right order, decide what content should remain in the text and what part is merely self-indulgent commentary that belongs in the note. Etc.

I'd argue those of you who do NOT use end notes are lazy and stuffy, what with your unreadably long sentences and torturous vocabulary full of multi-syllable jargon implicitly citing whole libraries of the writings of old or dead people.

On 8/5/20 12:24 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> Now Glen has contaminated Jon with the style of putting footnotes with reference symbols in email messages, I have to protest.  Footnoting as a sinful, lazy, nasty, indulgent, stuffy academic habit that should be stomped out wherever it emerges, no matter how ingenious and whimsical the reference symbols.

--
↙↙↙ uǝlƃ

- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/