SC - Footnotes
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Tue Sep 12 07:10:16 PDT 2000
I personally prefer more rather than less in the way of footnotes. I find that
they, if well-done, provide all sorts of auxilliary information, even if I'm
familiar with the item being footnoted. So no, I don't find them a nuisance,
but rather an additional source of knowledge!
Kiri
Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
> I'd like to throw out a general question to the list on the philosophy of
> footnotes. What kinds of explanatory footnotes do you look for in a
> translated work? Do you think that any potentially unfamiliar terms
> should be footnoted, or only the really obscure ones? Are too many
> footnotes a nuisance?
>
> I would appreciate hearing what people think about this, since the
> purpose of footnotes, IMO, is to make the work more understandable
> and accessible to its readers.
>
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
> mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> harper at idt.net
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