GLOSSARY FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

	THEY WRITE				THEY MEAN

It has long been known that...		I haven't bothered to look
					up the origional reference.

...of great theoretical and practical	interesting to me.
importance				

While it has not been possible to 	The experiments didn't work out,
provide definite answers to these 	but I fugured I could at least get
questions...				a publication out of it.

The W-PB system was chosen as		The fellow in the next lab had
especially suitable to show the		some already made up.
predicted behavior			

A fiducial reference line		a scratch

Three of the samples were chosen for	The results of the others didn't
detailed study				make sence and were ignored.

...handled with extreme care		...not dropped on the floor
during the experiments			

Typical results are shown...		The best results are shown.

Presumably at longer times		I didn't take the time to find out.

The agreement with the predicted curve is:
excellent				fair
good					poor
satisfactory				doubtful
fair					imaginary
...as good as can be expected		non-existant

These results will be reported at 	I might get around to this sometime.
a later date.				

The most reliable values are 		He was a student of mine
those of Jones				

It is suggested that...
It is believed that...			I think...
It may be that...

It is clear that much additional	I don't understand it
work will be required before a 
complete understanding...

Correct within an order of magnitude	Wrong

It is to be hoped that this 		This paper isn't very good, but 
work will stimulate further 		neither are any of the others on
work in the field			this miserable subject.

Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for 	Glotz did the work and Doe
assistance with the experiments, and	explained what it meant.
to John Doe for valuable discussions.