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0 pointsAlifatisk1y ago0 comments

Why couldn’t you just write a paragraph instead of using some citing system for formulating your sentence?

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Philpax1y ago· 1 in thread

They're footnotes and are meant to be read as supplementary notes to the core message.

But we already have a way for supplementary notes, it's by using parentheses? Like this:

  Today I went for a walk (which I don't usually do), and I saw a squirrel.

Or have I been doing it wrong?

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