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[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

He knows about other things too, but they're only tangentially related

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Chicago, APA and MLA are different citation standards. At the end of books or papers you will see a bunch of references and they are all in the same format, these standards dictate the order of information (eg title, author, chapter, volume, page number...)

[–] FearfulSalad@ttrpg.network 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Your disdain for these manuals of style is blatantly visible in your omission of the serial comma, which all three recommend using ಠ_ಠ

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

All my homies love the Oxford comma

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Ha! My background is science, honestly I just plug everything into endnote and it does it for me I can't be bothered to learn the format.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah. Never heard of these. Thanks for the explanation.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What, Wizard Seminary doesn't believe in citations? It's just a free for all of plagiarism?

That sounds awesome, actually.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Not really. I am just not from the US so we use different standards

[–] Neoinvin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

writing standards and styles guides

He's going to decrease sin by increasing the amount of pie in the Vatican, because as we know the sin of pi is 0 :3

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Love this one the most. So many levels. Practically multivariable.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

He’s gonna take on saTan()

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
               sin cos

trigonometry 🤝 consequentialist ethics

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Since he has a STEM degree, he's still an APA Pope

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

He's Nature's Pope