When I was an undergrad at a certain well-regarded university, a smart history major I knew who was writing a senior thesis and applying to graduate programs asked me if I could explain the word "historiography" to him because he had somehow managed to get through four years without encountering it.
11.03.2026 03:11
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"X's book fails to address Y"
No, he does in fact address it, in the footnote on p. 159. You just didn't see it.
10.03.2026 20:29
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It's common to "gut" texts, e.g. read only the intro/conclusion and perhaps the first sentences of paragraphs.
It probably explains why when I read the lit review chapter of dissertations I often find downright bizarre mischaracterizations of some book or other that I have actually read in full.
10.03.2026 20:26
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I mean, yeah, this was very predictable
09.03.2026 22:01
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If any of these people actually lived in Maine it would be sort of amusing to see how many would manage to talk themselves into voting/campaigning for Susan Collins
09.03.2026 21:53
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I still to this day have never heard anybody explain this. Detective giving testimony: "We examined the decedent's personal effects, to include his wallet." What?
09.03.2026 15:09
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The real test of a military AI is whether it can consistently write "to include" in contexts where every native English speaker in the world who is not in the American military or law enforcement would correctly write "including"
09.03.2026 15:08
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somehow got blocked for this, lmao this site fucking rules so much
02.11.2025 05:14
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90% of baseball players are MAGA lol
02.11.2025 05:11
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