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What do you mean by auditing?

sandworm101 2y ago
To audit a course, say at university, means to attend and perhaps do assignments but not pay fees nor receive credit for a course. It is often observed as someone "sitting in" on lectures without writing the final exam. Another usage is for supervising professors who attend a lecture to "audit" it in the sense that an IRS auditor would audit a tax return. They are examining the junior professor's performance or adherence to guidelines.
- bee_rider 2y ago
  But it remains an open question under either definition, since this podcast series isn’t a college course. And, for all we know, the original poster is not a professor…
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nobody9999 2y ago
>What do you mean by auditing? Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-humpty-dumpty-said-in-rather https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-hum... “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
- BoiledCabbage 2y ago
  What a horrible response
  - nobody9999 2y ago
    Thank you. I appreciate your point of view. Have a wonderful day!
    - BoiledCabbage 2y ago
      Glad I could educate you!
  - d1sxeyes 2y ago
    Yours is not much better. However, to OP: a facetious response quoting literature is quite unkind. While you may feel that 'audit' means something particular, the fact is that it has a couple of definitions and none of them are immediately apparent (to me, a native speaker). It's also quite prone to being used as a 'false friend' for something who speaks romance languages in which the normal verb for 'listen' is close to the Latin. Bear in mind that this is the internet, and no-one can be sure whether English is anyone's first language. As an external observer, I can't tell if you are a native English speaker, and I cannot tell whether the person asking the question is a native English speaker. A better way to approach the question would have been just to give the benefit of the doubt and answer simply and clearly. (BTW: there's some interesting discussion of your point of view here: https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who-is-the-ultimate-arbiter-of-meaning/ https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who...)

To audit a course, say at university, means to attend and perhaps do assignments but not pay fees nor receive credit for a course. It is often observed as someone "sitting in" on lectures without writing the final exam. Another usage is for supervising professors who attend a lecture to "audit" it in the sense that an IRS auditor would audit a tax return. They are examining the junior professor's performance or adherence to guidelines.

bee_rider 2y ago
But it remains an open question under either definition, since this podcast series isn’t a college course. And, for all we know, the original poster is not a professor…

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nobody9999 2y ago

>What do you mean by auditing? Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-humpty-dumpty-said-in-rather https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-hum... “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

BoiledCabbage 2y ago
What a horrible response
- nobody9999 2y ago
  Thank you. I appreciate your point of view. Have a wonderful day!
  - BoiledCabbage 2y ago
    Glad I could educate you!
- d1sxeyes 2y ago
  Yours is not much better. However, to OP: a facetious response quoting literature is quite unkind. While you may feel that 'audit' means something particular, the fact is that it has a couple of definitions and none of them are immediately apparent (to me, a native speaker). It's also quite prone to being used as a 'false friend' for something who speaks romance languages in which the normal verb for 'listen' is close to the Latin. Bear in mind that this is the internet, and no-one can be sure whether English is anyone's first language. As an external observer, I can't tell if you are a native English speaker, and I cannot tell whether the person asking the question is a native English speaker. A better way to approach the question would have been just to give the benefit of the doubt and answer simply and clearly. (BTW: there's some interesting discussion of your point of view here: https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who-is-the-ultimate-arbiter-of-meaning/ https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who...)