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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-12 at 15:46

my favorite academic quirk is when a page ends up with more footnotes than actual text

like, surely there is a better way of doing this lmao

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Written by Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin: on 2025-01-12 at 15:58

@nkizz I will admit to having written academic papers where the footnotes and appendix word count was greater than the paper itself, but I don’t think I ended up this extreme in formatting; I tended to refer to an appendix in a footnote if it became more than a couple of sentences, or rework the paragraph so the footnote wasn’t required.

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-12 at 16:06

@carbontwelve yeah, it seems to be especially prevalent in translations of ancient literature since

a. the text is well defined so can't really be modified by parentheticals etc,

b. the notes being along side the text is more relevant since it's providing more essential context

c. they're often published in anthologies so I'd imagine from a printer's perspective having many independent appendices would be logistically inconvenient

thinking about the talmud, and how it handles out of text

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Written by Mx Autumn :blobcatpumpkin: on 2025-01-16 at 08:55

@nkizz I imagine with translations there is a lot of additional context required and it sometimes makes sense for it to be contained within the same page.

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Written by James Helferty on 2025-01-12 at 19:00

@nkizz is this late stage academia.

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Written by Who the heck is Mia? on 2025-01-12 at 19:13

@sirspate considering it's a book from the 1960s talking about a contract from ~1000, I hesitate to use the term late stage 😁

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Written by Andrew 🏳️‍🌈 💻 🧦 on 2025-01-16 at 01:43

@nkizz Yeah, when footnotes start being too long, that's when you should switch to endnotes IMO. Just save footnotes for concise clarifications, and have them refer to endnotes if there is more detail to share.

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Written by tuban_muzuru on 2025-01-16 at 02:40

@nkizz

Shades of David Foster Wallace

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Written by sport of sacred spherical cows on 2025-01-16 at 03:14

@nkizz

In The Body Multiple, Annemarie Mol entirely dispenses with the conceit of the footer being enumerated notes.

Instead, she has two different texts, in two different valences of voice, running top and bottom of each page, throughout the book.

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Written by Glen Turner on 2025-01-16 at 03:31

@nkizz Usually this particular issue is handled with the main text on the left page and the commentary on the right page. But this looks like a journal rather than a book, and so the formatting choices are limited.

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