FQs (famous and not-so-famous quotes)

It’s all a matter of degree.                    – Ron Langacker

It’s all a matter of construal.                – Ron Langacker

Grammars leak.                                     – Edward Sapir

Data pool (if you’re lucky).                    – Sally Rice

Creativity under constraint.                 – Sally Rice

Every analysis is provisional.               – Sally Rice

Beware the conceit of analyzability.   – Sally Rice

The 5 Cs of linguistic analysis:  Content, Context, Concept, Construal, and Conventionalization.     – Sally Rice

The 4 pitfall Ps of graduate school: PERFECTIONISM, PROCRASTINATION, PANIC, and PARALYSIS.     – Sally Rice

editorial notes

Sally Rice’s glossary of editorial marginalia [pdf]

ASSNOT           do not assume this is general knowledge

AWK!                awkward wording (restate in a clearer fashion)

BB                     bunk, bosh (I’m too polite to say B.S.)

BETI                  better than I could have stated myself

BRILLO             brilliant observation

BUNK                bunk (sometimes I just have to spell it out)

CAP                   capital point (please make more out of it or make more of them)

DV                      déjà vu all over again (quit repeating yourself)

EE                      elaborate or eliminate

EXPO                 who are the major exponents of this position?

FD                      this is a false dichotomy (see OSZ below)

FQ                      this is destined to become a famous quote

FORMO             formatting problem

(G)SUTE             (gratuitous) sucking up to the editor; I’m not impressed by references to my work

MISS                  you’ve misinterpreted the source

MOO                   mainly overlooks the obvious (in cow-like fashion)

NIR                     citation not in references

NIT                      citation not in text

NOCO(BARG)     not compelled by your argument

OINK                   original, interesting, and new (contribution to) knowledge

OO                      out of order, move as indicated

OSZ                    you’re over-strawmanizing

RR                      repetitive and/or redundant

SC                      selective citation (include more literature)

SOFM                 spell out first mention

SS                       follow a style sheet

STOP                  stop working immediately and send to a journal--it’s ready for prime time!

SW                      so what? who cares? (the exact opposite of BRILLO or OINK)

THINKO             content equivalent to a typo

TOOD                 too dense; unpack into shorter sentences

TOOT                 you’re tooting your own horn too much (tone it down)

TURPS               turgid prose (please think of the reader!)

UASS                 you can assume this is general knowledge (no need to cite anyone)

UNC(LE)            unclear (I’m beating my brains out trying to figure out what you’re saying & am pleading with you to stop

UNSUB              unsubstantiated! (cite someone)

VV                       vapid and vague; vague and vacuous; vacuous and vapid

ZZZ                    you’re putting me to sleep