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It depends on the field.
In an intro to physics course, I've cited the Principia before without issues.
I've also cited the Cyropaedia in a philosophy course.
I got a significant penalty for citing a 2013 article for a software design paper.
What do you do to write for physics, philosophy and software design papers?
Not OP, but attend undergrad. When I was in undergrad I specialized in chemistry, but I still needed to take breadth requirement courses in humanities and social sciences. So I did papers in chemistry, physics, statistics, political theory, ancient Greek history, and English throughout my undergrad.
I'm working on my third bachelor's degree.
A degree in the classics pays absolute shit, and math teachers are still paid shit, albeit slightly more than Starbucks. It turns out I hate children more than anticipated.
good God.
Okay, that is painful.
However, I think I’m going to start telling people that I was born in the mid-1900s.
What's the cutoff? My instinct is 1975 but then that gives a 50 year period for 'mid' and only 25 each for 'early'/'late'. So is the cutoff between mid and late 1966?
I feel like early, middle and late aren't continuous, and there's gaps.
I don't think 1932 is early or mid 1900s.
Kinda like how young, old and middle aged don't have an immediate cutoff. A 31 year old is neither young nor middle aged, and a 54 year old is past middle aged, but they aren't old yet.
Funny how you see gaps. I feel they overlap. For decades Like 31-34 is early 30s, 33-37 is mid, and 38 39 are late. (Late being a smaller interval because everyone likes it that way.)
I think the about the same proportions work for centuries.
But I definitely see gaps in being young, old, and middle-age.
I've always gone 30-33 is early, 34-36 is mid, and 37-39 is late myself.
I agree here. This is what I go by
Hmm, I normally say (since I turned 30) that 0-29 are young, 30-59 is middle aged, and 60-89 is old (90+ is super old/ancient 😆).
This hurts nearly as much as the OP.
Middle-aged starts at 30?! Fuck I’m old. At 53, middle-age didn’t start til 45, 75-89 is old, and I’d put super old at 95+.
Then again, I may be skewed a bit since my 88 year old dad is sharper than most people I know, still works his regular job in aerospace, and drives Uber in his spare time to keep himself young. He may live to 120 at this rate.
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Yeah, 66 is about right, assuming you split the century into three 33 year chunks.
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Automatic F for apostrophe abuse
there aren't enough F's for that kid
I don't have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to grammar, but pluralizing dates and acronyms with apostrophes is definitely one of them.
Yeah! They should of not used that apostrophe!
(Fun fact, my phone apparently now won’t even let me type that phrase without it autocorrecting it to “have”. I had to manually “fix” it. Good on you, iOS.)
We started Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime last night. The first line is that it takes place when the reader's grandfather was a child. I flipped to the copyright page and did some math. Found myself having to do a lot of prefacing with the little one. "Okay, so there used to be like no electricity at all anywhere ever. Not that long ago. Even though everything you see is electronic.."
My daughter likes the old Looney Tunes cartoons. But there are a lot of things mentioned or shown in those cartoons that don't exist anymore and it's been fun having to explain what certain things are. There was a one cartoon where my daughter asked why there would be a knob on a car's dash that said "choke". I have a very old car that has a carburetor (long story) so thankfully I could show her, but even that old bucket of bolts has an automatic choke.
Another cartoon had a sort of proto-Elmer Fudd that was taking pictures of wildlife, and I had to explain what all this equipment was he had with him. He had a camera that used a squeeze bulb for the shutter and had a hood to cover the operator.
For me, I think it's interesting that in the original Star Trek, there were no screens with text on them. There were screens, but they showed video or images instead of text. That's because back when ol' Bill Shatner was on the camera putting commas in places they don't belong, there was no such thing as a computer screen with text. You entered data into a computer with a teletype, and it gave your answers back on a printout.
Damn
Gotta wonder if this how people born in 1880/1890 felt when/if people in the 1920's referred to 1894 as the late 1800's
Yikes, my mid-1900s ass ain't likin' this trend.
As the Beastie Boys so famously put it:
"Ooh, GODDAMN!"
Awe, mom you're just jealous.
I have a violent urge to smack this child upside their head.
That's the "get off my lawn" response developing. However, you, me, and anyone born after 1990 won't have a lawn shoo kids off from.
"Get off the public street in front of my apartment!"
Can confirm: Was born during 1990; have lawn.
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I might be retarded but what's wrong with the post? The year is specified quite unconventionally, but that's all i can see.
The student implies the late 1900's was very long ago, and the Twitter poster found that hurtful possibly in a joking matter.
Hearing someone talk about a time that you vividly remember as a generic 100 year historical era.
It feels like someone dropped those decades into an archive folder with the rest of history and left it to collect dust.
Took me like 3 reads, but I cracked up once I realized.
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