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

Posted by Gary Schiltz-4 on
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I don't intend to trash either Glen or Jon, but I want to express my hearty agreement with you (Nick) about footnotes (as well as endnotes). For someone like myself with ADD/OCD tendencies, I just can't skip past one of these damn things without chasing said footnote/endnote. Since I read everything electronically these days, it's a major pain to get back to where I was, especially in PDF documents without good navigational facilities. And embedded URLs in web content? I think I've done a depth first search of the entire internet by now and haven't ever popped the stack back to the original document I was trying to read in the first place. As you said, PURE EVIL! Tongue firmly in cheek :-)

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:25 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.

 

But I love you both like brothers฿

 

฿ really!

 

Nick

 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

[hidden email]

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

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Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OK. That's funny.

 

Further, if we only take what we will agree to in the long-run as truths, then it is very likely that we all aptly believe things that can never be true.

 

 

 

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