Makes sense?
Aren't random quotations in emails great? I got this today:
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself"
(Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead)
Well, I prefer to go with the first case.
On a similar note, when you are reading an interesting paper in linguistics, where the author presents new arguments and defends some ideas, then not even half way through she writes:
"If doing so leads the reader to abandon the paper at this point, so be it."
Does this sound a little bit over self-confident? I wonder if the editors of the journal were entirely happy about this.
Mai
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself"
(Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead)
Well, I prefer to go with the first case.
On a similar note, when you are reading an interesting paper in linguistics, where the author presents new arguments and defends some ideas, then not even half way through she writes:
"If doing so leads the reader to abandon the paper at this point, so be it."
Does this sound a little bit over self-confident? I wonder if the editors of the journal were entirely happy about this.
Mai
posted by Mai at 3:41 PM
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