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.
My partner had to write a paper about some medical procedure that was invented in early 1900s, and they had to use at least two "original research that is at most 2 years old". The whole course was a clusterfuck.
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.
But the 90s were just 10 years ago!
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.
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.
Guessing that last one was in 2014
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?
Yeah, 66 is about right, assuming you split the century into three 33 year chunks.
They'll think you're a time traveller!
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
there aren't enough F's for that kid
Damn
Gotta wonder if this how people born in 1880/1890 felt when/if people in the 1920's referred to 1894 as the late 1800's
Yikes, my mid-1900s ass ain't likin' this trend.
As the Beastie Boys so famously put it:
"Ooh, GODDAMN!"
Awe, mom you're just jealous.
Guys, guys, guys.. the paper is due tomorrow and they're only now asking about sources. As in they haven't written the assignment over break and are about to speedrun that mf.
I have a violent urge to smack this child upside their head.
That's the "get off my lawn" response developing. However, you, me, and anyone born after 1990 won't have a lawn shoo kids off from.
"Get off the public street in front of my apartment!"
Can confirm: Was born during 1990; have lawn.
Yeh maybe don't do that
I might be retarded but what's wrong with the post? The year is specified quite unconventionally, but that's all i can see.
The student implies the late 1900's was very long ago, and the Twitter poster found that hurtful possibly in a joking matter.
Hearing someone talk about a time that you vividly remember as a generic 100 year historical era.
It feels like someone dropped those decades into an archive folder with the rest of history and left it to collect dust.
Took me like 3 reads, but I cracked up once I realized.
I'm older than that paper 💀
I was wondering when this tweet would arrive here.
It's been posted at least one other time on Lemmy.
Good to know it’s been enjoyed here before now.
