SC - anthro thoughts OT
Karen O
kareno at lewistown.net
Tue Sep 12 21:30:52 PDT 2000
Brighid writes:
> What kinds of explanatory footnotes do you look for in a
> translated work?
Copious ones...
> Do you think that any potentially unfamiliar terms
> should be footnoted, or only the really obscure ones?
Neither -- difficult terms should be covered in a glossary rather than
in footnotes, I think.
> Are too many
> footnotes a nuisance?
Not usually -- I think that if you find that every page is filling with
multiple footnotes, it's time to start rewriting.
Cheers,
Edward Long-hair
Southron Gaard, Caid
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