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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
I LIKE MLA style - am I the only one? Footnotes make my head hurt.
Also, the book is nice and thick - useful when being attacked by those opposed to good grammar and spelling.
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I guess I just prefer reading the body of the work uninterrupted by citations. If I'm using a piece for research I first want to read it over to get an idea of what it says and the tone. Then I go back and find passages I like, at which point I care about the source. The in-line citations, to me, break up the reading process. I guess it comes because I'm a historian by training and I like reading "stories."
And for what it's worth, the Chicago Manual of Style is no magazine... I imagine a good whomp on the head with it would cause a nice, shiny bruise.
PS: I too am a grammar Nazi, but I refuse to say "an historian" unless the pompous punks who insist upon the use of "an" before an aspirate H will say "an hockey puck."