From an automatic pre-send spell check of an email I sent today, asking a PI for guidance on some subfield-specific terminology:
Apparently they're are too equivalent forms, butt won is preferable two the other
Very helpful.
In other news, I learned today that my online life is benefiting my career: years of experience in choosing cheesy pun-laden blog post titles turns out to be excellent preparation for suggesting cheesy pun-laden review article titles (although none of mine are likely to be used because the senior author came up with one that they like better); and all those times I’ve had to veeeery carefully reword a Tweet to fit the character limit have improved my ability to do the same thing when using restrictive grant application forms. Social media FTW!
I <3 the title of this post.
thank ewe!
you know it’s always hard with that….
Congrats on the silliness knowledge! I’d be happy to come up with some of your funnier head lines 🙂
(i probably need to pracitce that 140 c restriction on twitter… )
it’s very good training!
Sadly, most of my blog post titles are too silly even for review articles…
ehh… your blog posts’ headlines as awesome!! 🙂
I mean, review articles headlines? not often that funny as blog post headlines 🙂
but still better than normal research paper titles, usually!
And thank you, by the way. You’re making me blush!
Know-won out jeezes me on cheezy puns–especially awful review titles. Try this won on for size:
C-terminal EH-domain-containing proteins: consensus for a role in endocytic trafficking, EH?
I think that one’s disappeared up its own organelle… Or come to a bad end(osome).
I think we could put your pun in a new organelle coined the “awesomesome.”
Oh dear.
The review is about using a new technology to undertake a much more comprehensive and unbiased approach to discovery in a field than has been possible in the past. One of my suggested titles was “Mine the gap: the impact of [shiny new technique] on [field]”. The other was a geeky sci-fi pun. The senior author is going with a Greek mythology spin instead though.
Ah, punishment.
Cath, were you not aware of this research?
I wonder whether the findings would be the same with blog post titles and hit rates as the data but I suspect not.
Interesting – thanks for the link!
I also liked the “Unintentionally inappropriate science papers” post that someone linked to in the comments!
Is this why so many english native speakers make that STUPID mistake? It’s just the spell-check?
(I’m a bit of an English grammar freak by the way. I think I’m better at English everyday grammar than at the Dutch and certainly the German equivalents)
You’re missing a period on your last sentence….
that’s because it was a pregnant pause
Ahh, but if you practice abstinence, no pregnant pauses needed.
Shoot me now, please. Anybody.