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> "the father of sociobology" I will never understand why people write articles without a spell-checker.
by rnabel 9y ago
> "the father of sociobology"
I will never understand why people write articles without a spell-checker.
- oh_sigh 9y agoHey, at least the author didn't misspell the first word in the title of their thesis: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/528049 https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/52804... , http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Birke.html http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Birke.html Strangely enough, which I didn't know when first writing this post, is that my aunt knows this lady as they overlapped during their tenure as professors at the university of warwick
- btrettel 9y agoThat appears to be a journal article, not a thesis, and the title is correct in print: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4236129 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4236129
- mcguire 9y agoI would like to make a tribology joke here, but I can't because it's from the Greek τρίβω, tribo, "I rub".
- rdiddly 9y agoYou haven't heard of sociobology? It's the study of social interaction patterns among oboe players.
- interfixus 9y agoSpell-checkers are a huge distracting pain. My first official act on any kind of text-producing equipment is to turn the damned things off. For typos and suchlike, I know I ought to run them manually before going public with anything - HN comments included - but usually I either forget or can't be bothered, because I know the real errors will drown in a sea of red underlining - me using strange words or simply writing in another language than the checker is set up to expect.