Footnotes
Posted at 10:14 am on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Uncategorized, and tagged meta.
Ever astute readers of this blog have noticed my recent inclusion, and dependency (sort of), on footnotes. I like footnotes, as you can tell. I use footnotes primarily as parentheticals. I have always written asides, or digressions, from the main point or flow of any given blog entry I was writing, but placing these strictly in parentheses sometimes takes away from the original content, maybe always.1 By the time the reader is done with the parenthetical, he is unable to simply pick back up his place in the article itself. The value of the parenthetical is lost, no matter its content or meaning. Whereas, with a footnote (or several footnotes), I can extend my parenthetical(s) without worrying about proper syntax (e.g., additional parentheses, closing comma) and flow, or even length. Plus they look cool.
That is my position on footnotes.
Notes- Sometimes I would use an asterisk as a make-shift footnote, but such a system has functionally limited me to one footnote per entry. Maybe that was a good thing. ↩
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