suggestions for reviewing [pb]

[cmat]

I've worked a lot this week. Today's hassle: fighting with LDAP from 9pm to 11:30. I missed a Cork outing with txgreengoddess and ruato, because I was screaming at a yast dialog box. Tomorrow and Saturday will be the UT visit; then Sunday apparently I will work much of the day. I'm tired. I have this theory that when I get to grad school, my professional

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Great!

[shakati]

Unless you object seriously, I'm going to take this and
permanently post it on my web site.

However..."I have this theory that when I get to grad school..."
That's a hypothesis, not a theory. A theory should have some
evidence to back it up. Let me suggest that you hope for
(eventual) convergence, rather than parallelism....

Re: Great!

[cmat]

...I'm going to take this and permanently post it on my web site.

That's awesome. I'll send you an html version. Will you attribute it?

However..."I have this theory that when I get to grad school..." That's a hypothesis, not a theory. A theory should have some evidence to back it up.

Well, I was actually using the people I know in grad school as examples, so I wouldn't say there's no data. Although I grant the similarity measure is uncertain.

[txgreengoddess]

I too am sorry you missed Cork outing, too :( However, I do believe we decided to make another trip, so you can call do-overs :)

[cmat]

Yeah. And to miss it because I was working was the outside of too much! But that's okay; soon Everything Will Be Different. :-) (I hope.)

[_rck_]

This is really the one that I have the biggest problem with, too. I understand the danger of misunderstandings, but that doesn't go away in the same language either (e.g. if people use idioms in peculiar ways).

Good technical English is very hard; the studied simplicity that is considered good style since the Royal Academy of Sciences sounds juvenile and condescending in many other Indo-European languages.

I proof a good number of the English articles and proposals that my friends at the Theology Department back home write; I am pretty much the closest thing to a native speaker that they can get access to [no, this is not an attempt to fish for compliments]. I suspect that the situation is the same in the research centers of many other countries in the world.

I think reviewers whose native language is the submission language should just thank their lucky stars that they dont have to read it in the submitter's native language and keep going.

[cmat]

Guh. I wrote a long response to this and then my browser crashed. I will recreate it sometime soon.

Apparently the saving-drafts thing is only for posts... :-(

[_rck_]

This has almost nothing to do with the awesomeness of the suggestions, which I dont blama shakati for posting on his website, but I wonder when "drooling moron" will become politically unacceptable.

[pmat]

Dunno, why haven't you?

[cmat]

Thatr's because she attended Cyc 101 a few years ago, among other reasons. :-)