{"id":1160,"date":"2010-06-28T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/an-abnormally-interesting-lexicon-of-scholarly-usage\/"},"modified":"2010-06-28T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T16:37:00","slug":"an-abnormally-interesting-lexicon-of-scholarly-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/an-abnormally-interesting-lexicon-of-scholarly-usage.html","title":{"rendered":"An Abnormally Interesting Lexicon Of Scholarly Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Duane Smith<\/a> has shared fragments from a \u201cLexicon of Scholarly Usage\u201d that he remembers encountering at some point. Some of these \u201cdefinitions\u201d are priceless<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u201cet al.\u201d = \u201cplus some people I\u2019ve never heard of,\u201d or, in some contexts, \u201cmy co-authors.\u201d
\u2022\u201capud\u201d = \u201cI\u2019m too lazy to fine the original so I\u2019ll quote it from someone else.\u201d
\u2022\u201cpassim\u201d = \u201cI have some vague memory of the author discussing this elsewhere in his or her book\u201d
\u2022\u201cAs I have demonstrated elsewhere\u201d = \u201cPlease read my previous paper on a different subject.\u201d
\u2022\u201cc.f.\u201d = \u201cYou look it up, I didn\u2019t have time.\u201d
\u2022\u201ce.g.\u201d = \u201cnot quite supported by\u201d
\u2022\u201cetc\u201d = \u201cthere may be other examples but I can\u2019t find any.\u201d
\u2022\u201ci.e.\u201d = \u201cor as I should have said in the first place\u201d
\u2022\u201cIt has long been known\u201d = \u201cI think\u201d
\u2022\u201cIt is well established\u201d = \u201cThose who think what I think agree with me\u201d
\u2022\u201cMost scholars agree\u201d see \u201cIt has long been known\u201d
\u2022\u201cscholarly consensus\u201d = \u201cgroup think\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And for those working on articles likely to contain such shorthand, Marc Cortez<\/a> shares some advice for academic writers from Inside Higher Education<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Duane Smith has shared fragments from a \u201cLexicon of Scholarly Usage\u201d that he remembers encountering at some point. Some of these \u201cdefinitions\u201d are priceless. \u2022\u201cet al.\u201d = \u201cplus some people I\u2019ve never heard of,\u201d or, in some contexts, \u201cmy co-authors.\u201d\u2022\u201capud\u201d = \u201cI\u2019m too lazy to fine the original so I\u2019ll quote it from someone else.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAn Abnormally Interesting Lexicon Of Scholarly Usage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Duane Smith has shared fragments from a "Lexicon of Scholarly Usage" that he remembers encountering at some point. 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