מאמרים מדעיים - לא מה שחשבת

בדומה לחוזים משפטיים, גם למאמרים מדעיים/אקדמיים יש שפה ייחודית שאינה תמיד ברורה למי שאינו מצוי בסוד העניינים. זו לא תהיה בעיה עבורכם אחרי שתעברו על הרשימה הבאה -

Phrase: It has long been known

Translation: I haven't bothered to look up the reference

Phrase: It is believed

Translation: I think

Phrase: It is generally believed

Translation: A couple of other guys think so too

Phrase: It is not unreasonable to assume

Translation: I have no idea what it actually is and neither do you

Phrase: Of great theoretical importance

Translation: I find it kind of interesting

Phrase: Of great practical importance

Translation: I can get some mileage out of it

Phrase: Typical results are shown

Translation: The best results are shown

Phrase: 3 samples were chosen for further study

Translation: The others didn't make sense, we ignored them

Phrase: The 4 hours sample was not studied

Translation: I dropped it on the floor

Phrase: The significance of these results is unclear

Translation: Look at the pretty artifact

Phrase: It has not been possible to provide definitive answers

Translation: The experiment was negative, but at least I can publish the data somewhere

Phrase: Correct within an order of magnitude

Translation: Wrong

Phrase: It might be argued that

Translation: I have such a good answer for that objection that I shall now raise it

Phrase: Much additional work will be required

Translation: This paper is not very good, but neither are all the others in

this miserable field

Phrase: These investigations proved highly rewarding

Translation: My grant is going to be renewed

Phrase: I thank X for assistance with the experiments and Y for useful

discussions on the interpretation of the data

Translation: X did the experiment and Y explained it to me.