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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2010-07-25

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-03-15:

"Dissertations vary in length, from a few pages for some mathematical papers to hundreds of pages for historical or literary studies, and they vary in readability, from the merely turgid to the utterly incomprehensible." -- Fred Lerner, in The Story of Libraries.

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posted by [personal profile] skreidle at 12:07pm on 2010-07-25
Heh.


No lj-cut text at LJ, btw. :)
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eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:00am on 2010-07-27
Thanks. Only sporadically connecting to the 'net this week, due to hardware problem.
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posted by [personal profile] skreidle at 05:09am on 2010-07-27
Indeed, I read about that later.. still don't want to believe that anyone working in a store selling electronics wouldn't know what an "A/C Adapter" is.
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eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:20am on 2010-07-27
One, for whom English may not have been her first language, finally said, "Oh! You mean like an inverter?" At which point her definitely Anglophone coworker said, "Yes," and I said, "No, the other direction -- a rectifier, not an inverter." But by then I was already pretty boggled by having had to explain to four people in two stores what "AC adaptor" meant. (The only place this wasn't a problem was the first store I tried, Radio Shack.)

One fellow who did know what they were said something about sometimes getting confused because "people have so many different nicknames for them" ... except that I had deliberately started off not using a nickname, because I wasn't absolutely certain everybody would instantly recognize "wall wart". Wheeee.
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posted by [personal profile] skreidle at 05:25am on 2010-07-27
Admittedly, I had to process a bit / read for context to remember the meaning of "wall wart"--it's not a phrase I use for said devices.
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