Had a class where the cutoff was 17 years IIRC so it’s entirely possible that sources from the 90s aren’t accepted in their class.
Yeah, I looked at this and wondered what was so surprising about the text; I’m the same age as this incredible paper and I’ve regularly had professors that wouldn’t accept something that old. To be honest, what I landed on is OOP is also a ‘94 baby who’s teaching their first class.
Calling 90’s “late 1900s” is mega weird for anyone who isn’t really young
Being born in 2000 would make you 23 years old today… which means you could feasibly have graduated college by then. So maybe less weird than you think.
It depends on the field.
I’ve cited the Principia before without issues.
I’ve also cited the Cyropaedia.
Reminds me of someone asking how to cite the Bible. Whether or not you can just go “John 3:16” or “His Majesty King James VI of Scotland and I of England, Ireland and France - 1611 ‘Authorised Version’ Translation of The Bible - John Chapter Three Section 16”
Although if you were directly quoting it, I think stating the translation would be more important than if you were referencing it.
The Bible, The Lord; 0 AD
Be bold, dare your teacher to dock you points for it.
I don’t believe we have a single book in the bible written in 0 CE. I’m docking points for incorrectly citing the publication date on the book you reference. /s
Translations are important, and with the Cyropaedia I did need to use the translation. For the Principia, because I wanted to flex, I provided my own translation. I could have cited the text book, but that would be less fun.
What do you do to write for physics, philosophy and software design papers?
Not OP, but attend undergrad. When I was in undergrad I specialized in chemistry, but I still needed to take breadth requirement courses in humanities and social sciences. So I did papers in chemistry, physics, statistics, political theory, ancient Greek history, and English throughout my undergrad.
I’m working on my third bachelor’s degree.
A degree in the classics pays absolute shit, and math teachers are still paid shit, albeit slightly more than Starbucks. It turns out I hate children more than anticipated.
Okay, that is painful.
However, I think I’m going to start telling people that I was born in the mid-1900s.
What’s the cutoff? My instinct is 1975 but then that gives a 50 year period for ‘mid’ and only 25 each for ‘early’/‘late’. So is the cutoff between mid and late 1966?
I feel like early, middle and late aren’t continuous, and there’s gaps.
I don’t think 1932 is early or mid 1900s.
Kinda like how young, old and middle aged don’t have an immediate cutoff. A 31 year old is neither young nor middle aged, and a 54 year old is past middle aged, but they aren’t old yet.
Funny how you see gaps. I feel they overlap. For decades Like 31-34 is early 30s, 33-37 is mid, and 38 39 are late. (Late being a smaller interval because everyone likes it that way.)
I think the about the same proportions work for centuries.
But I definitely see gaps in being young, old, and middle-age.
Hmm, I normally say (since I turned 30) that 0-29 are young, 30-59 is middle aged, and 60-89 is old (90+ is super old/ancient 😆).
We started Chronicles of Narnia at bedtime last night. The first line is that it takes place when the reader’s grandfather was a child. I flipped to the copyright page and did some math. Found myself having to do a lot of prefacing with the little one. “Okay, so there used to be like no electricity at all anywhere ever. Not that long ago. Even though everything you see is electronic…”
My daughter likes the old Looney Tunes cartoons. But there are a lot of things mentioned or shown in those cartoons that don’t exist anymore and it’s been fun having to explain what certain things are. There was a one cartoon where my daughter asked why there would be a knob on a car’s dash that said “choke”. I have a very old car that has a carburetor (long story) so thankfully I could show her, but even that old bucket of bolts has an automatic choke.
Another cartoon had a sort of proto-Elmer Fudd that was taking pictures of wildlife, and I had to explain what all this equipment was he had with him. He had a camera that used a squeeze bulb for the shutter and had a hood to cover the operator.
For me, I think it’s interesting that in the original Star Trek, there were no screens with text on them. There were screens, but they showed video or images instead of text. That’s because back when ol’ Bill Shatner was on the camera putting commas in places they don’t belong, there was no such thing as a computer screen with text. You entered data into a computer with a teletype, and it gave your answers back on a printout.
Automatic F for apostrophe abuse
