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(lemmy.world)
For the visually impaired it is a Twitter screenshot from Dani Donovan, ADHD Comics, @danidonovan
and reads,
the ADHD urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)
trying to fight that urge in academic writing every day
One word: footnotes
Are they still called footnotes if they take half the page? (I prefer parentheses though)
Pratchett would say yes.
Yeah, it's short for "a foot of notes" and the term was coined when the standard page length was 24 inches^1^.
Footnote
^1^This isn't true.House of Leaves thinks they are.
I hate footnotes. Every time I just wish it was added to the actual place where it is attached.
same
adding those on top of my footnote citations i think my page would be half full of footnotes ๐