Re: What is YOUR view?

On 2024-04-25 11:02:40 +0000, J. J. Lodder said:

Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:
 

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:17:19 +0200, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Athel Cornish-Bowden
<me@yahoo.com>:
 

On 2024-04-24 06:01:24 +0000, jillery said:
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 Since you are among those who make no distinction between those who
troll and those who criticize trolls, I expect you to ignore the
following as well:
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 18:18:25 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:
 

Hint for bluffing your way into physics:
Those in the know write E = mc^2, with that capitalisation,
both in printed papers and in ASCII,
 Jan

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 What on earth is wrong with that?`
 

Nothing, aside from the minor "bluffing your way" snark
(which is typical of Jan, and easily ignored); it's correct.

 Well, Jillary is 'buffing her way into physics'
with a certain regularity.
She seems to acquire a new area of competence
with every youtube movie she has seen.
 What outsiders don't realise is that sciences like physics or biology
are also languages that you have to learn to use correctly.
 Athel for example will also be distrustful of someone claiming knowledge
of biochemistry when he consistently fails to capitalise
the letters in the vatamins C, D12, etc.
 Biologists will distrust the biological knowledge
of people who fail to capitalise Linean species names correctly.

In principle yes, but even biologists sometimes write things like Saccharomyces Cerevisiae. However, in the days when serious journals had serious sub-editors they didn't make it into print.

And so on.
Those in the know do it in certain well established ways,
those who do it differently are not in the know, probably.
 Jan

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athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016