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Originally Posted by Sethomas
[...] Physics journals, on the contrary, typically require at least a master’s degree to make any sense whatsoever and Microsoft Word would put red squiggles under around 20% of all the words used in it (where words are actually used).
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I concur, but for the ability to understand most of the writing.
Having gone to grad school in the sciences, my fellow students and I often saw in one of the more prominent journals several articles by the same Professor/research group. On analyzing the science therein, we were amused to find that the papers were almost word-for-word copied from each other, in eveything including the conclusions, with changes made only to the object of study. We surmised that the Prof had a "paper" hotkey on his computer that asked for inputs on subject, object and a few other details before eventually submitting to a committee for peer review, and eventual publication.
In this day and age, he would probably use the Google "autocomplete" function.
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Originally Posted by Sethomas
Ever meet a film studies major?
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Actually, the closest I've come to this is meeting a "theater major". By way of contrast, he was anything but pretentious.
Your posting made me laugh loudly and long. Thanks for the pick-me-up (I just finished paying taxes).
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