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al-mayriti · 1 month ago

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i just finished writing this paper and i went to the email they sent me with the instructions to see the word limit and adjust mine, and it said it's 8k. i have 9k BUT if i don't count footnotes it goes down to 7,5K !!!!!

i have no idea if the 8k includes notes or not but i'm gonna submit it like it is lmao

#i'm obsessed with the fact i have 1.5k words of only footnotes #i did went a bit german with this one for no reason at all i just wanted to yap i guess #for those who don't know. in academia (at least in classics / ancient history) germans tend to write so many footnotes and so beefy than #i've come across various papers / chapters / translations where there's like. 10 lines of actual text and the rest of the page is just #footnotes #kinda iconic of them ngl. it's very funny cause i'll start reading a paper or a chapter of a book or whatever without seeing the author's #name. and i'll start seeing so many notes i go 'wait is the author german?' and 9 out of 10 times they are 😭😭😭#professors have actually mocked this or note this in class several times #in case you're curious #another quirks that depend on nationality is that statians have silly / quirky titles in their paper (incredibly unnecessary imo)#also for some reason they think a paper is a comedy sketch or something they try to be funny a bit too much #and brits are like. too snobbish but at the same time ruthless when attacking other academics #they're like the mean girls. every professor that taught me here in spain had a beef with british academics #also given the cultural hegemony of english their theories / views are usually the ones accepted by the general public #so when they're wrong or my professors don't agree they WILL trash them #but also something i've noticed by virtue of just going to different congresses #spaniards are super professional at them. not necessarily intimidating. but they take it seriously and want everything to be perfect #in hosting #italians are like midway between spaniards and brits. extremely friendly and chill but also professional #and then the brits are just like. whatever. they don't fucking care #it seems to me for them congresses are like socializing time they don't care about the presentations

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