A Guide to Effective Scientific Communication
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 Phrase                         Translation
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 It has long been known                 I haven't bothered to look up the
                                                  reference

 It is believed                               I think

 It is generally believed               A couple of other guys think so too

 It is not unreasonable to              If you believe this, you'll believe
 assume                                       anything

 Of great theoretical                    I find it kind of interesting
 importance

 Of great practical importance     I can get some mileage out of it

 Typical results are shown         The best results are shown

 3 samples were chosen for         The others didn't make sense, so
 further study                                we ignored them

 The 4 hour sample was not         I dropped it on the floor
 studied

 The 4 hour determination may      I dropped it on the floor, but
 not be significant                           scooped most of it up

 The significance of these         Look at the pretty artifact
 results is unclear

 It has not been possible to       The experiment was negative, but
 provide definitive answers        at least I can publish the data
 somewhere

 Correct within an order of             Wrong
 magnitude

 It might be argued that                 I have such a good answer for this
                                                       objection that I
shall now
                         raise it

 Much additional work will be       This paper is not very good, but
 required                                         neither are all the others
in this
                                                        miserable field

 These investigations proved       My grant is going to be renewed
 highly rewarding

 I thank X for assistance               X did the experiment and Y explained
 with the experiments and                         it to me
 Y for useful discussions
 on the interperetation of
 the data