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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nobody can convince me that's a good format.

The "battles [1][7][8][9][31][42][44][45][47][64][65][67][68][83][99]" format is superior and I'll die on that hill!

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

In other words, IEEE > Harvard

[–] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah the posted example is awful to read.

[–] goosehorse@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm working my way through House of Leaves right now, and the real horror is the grad school flashbacks from trying to follow the footnotes.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell by Susanna Clarke is pretty fantastic/terrible about that. The footnotes are often entire short stories and span many pages.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

I think the footnotes enhanced my love of that book.

And I alway think kindly of Pterry's nested footnotes.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could they not do the lil numbers with the footnotes instead?

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Holy fucking shit.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

They're usually end notes.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago

And still footnotes >>>>>>> [...] >>> endnotes.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's even worse when you're quoting some motherfucker that took PRIDE in plagiarism. Did Thomas More source his claims? No. He just made them and dared your peasant ass to say something about it, meanwhile Machiavelli is out there just copy pasting Livy and planning to poison anyone that brings it up.