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a deficiency of language

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1. i couldn’t figure out what you were talking about, until i realized you must mean – actual PAPER copies! from actual PAPER journals! i suppose the fact that i’ve never really used those in my academic career makes it easy to date my cohort.

   audrey

   November 11, 2009 at 3:28 am
2. While I am certainly well on the way to becoming an old fart, you’ll find these widows and orphans in the PDFs of many JSTOR articles — it’s more a question of the date of the article than whether the copy is paper or not. Many journals used to run directly from article to article without page-breaks. Most journals no longer do this (though some high-profile ones still do).

   Kieran

   November 11, 2009 at 3:32 am
3. How about “wanks?” Short for wasted ink.

   Mike M.

   November 11, 2009 at 3:33 am
4. Short for wasted ink

   Unfortunately I wouldn’t say that’s the typical connotation.

   Kieran

   November 11, 2009 at 3:36 am
5. Coattailers.

   Travis

   November 11, 2009 at 6:47 pm
6. By-the-ways

   REW

   November 12, 2009 at 1:29 am
7. also-rans

   Mark

   November 12, 2009 at 7:03 pm
8. article crumbs

   seansafford

   November 12, 2009 at 10:25 pm
9. overage and “underage”

   M. Sauder

   November 13, 2009 at 10:47 pm
10. I like that one.

    Kieran

    November 14, 2009 at 3:19 am
11. This just confirms my idea that Kieran is the Rich Hall of modern sociology. Long live sniglets.

    jsallaz

    November 14, 2009 at 6:16 am
12. [...] Un mot qui manque : Kieran Healy : « There should be a name for the widowed and orphaned bits of forgotten articles found at the top and bottom of copies of famous articles. » [...]

    Baptiste Coulmont » Liens utiles

    November 15, 2009 at 9:40 am
13. Extended margins?

    Marginal scholarship?

    andrew

    November 17, 2009 at 9:08 am

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