I'll never use tl;dr flippantly again

[silverflight8]

I was trying to find an article on medieval credit. This is what I found instead:

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Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[ed_rex]

My first thought was to wonder, were people smarter then than now?

The answer quickly came: no way!

But you've clearly unearthed a common ancestor to literatus bureaucratus and academius shitheadeus.

"... the Author flatters himself ..." indeed.

Re: Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[silverflight8]

He does sound remarkably pompous. I wonder if the actual article/survey/book longer than this title? Have some conciseness, man!

Re: Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[ed_rex]

I didn't even realize that was the title! Though, in retrospect, I ought to have; I've seen that sort of thing before. Like lead-based makeup and leeches for "hysteria" (yes, yes, maybe I'm mixing up eras/millienia — sue me!), "it was the style at the time".

But still, that's a remarkable example of the form (if only because you and i are remarking upon it).

Re: Have our Modern Minds Regressed?

[silverflight8]

You know what I discovered--it's not the fault of the author (it's a pamphlet)--it's whoever entered the information. They literally copied down everything on that pamphlet/broadside/flyer into the title section of metadata. Right down to the footnote *facepalm*

[morbane.livejournal.com]

Someone does not understand the difference between data and metadata. *boggles*

I wonder if that canal ever was dug...

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

I just went and looked it up again and actually...it's one whole page. That's it. The title they assigned is the entire page. The part where it says "subscribers names will be printed if permitted", that's a footnote complete with an asterisk at the bottom.

I don't know if the canal was dug either. I'm not sure how you'd try to find that or else I'd try to look.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Lol, what site is this? And what do you mean by medieval credit?

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

This is *cough* institution's library catalogue. I was trying to find information on medieval uses of credit--stuff like selling wine and not expecting cash payment now but later (sales credit), or like neighbours lending each other use of something/money, etc. There's also credit like money loans which are extended to kings (especially by Italian bankers) but those weren't what I was looking for.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Ugh yeah my uni's library catalogue was terrible, half the time I had an easier time finding books on a topic I needed to research via Wikipedia, which I would then check to see if my library had!

And ah interesting! Yeah there are so many meanings for credit, I thought you meant maybe artistic credit as well...(or lack thereof)

What is this for?

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah. It worked better when I searched for author names and narrowed it down that way. IDK why it didn't like me searching for titles. Persnickety.

It was for an annotated bibliography! So now I can tell you who wrote a lot on it (Postan, Briggs and Schofield, for medieval England) and that there really isn't much written about credit exchanged between non-merchants,esp rural communities. :P