Comments on: Academic Publishing

By: Postcards from the Archive: Goodbye 2010

Postcards from the Archive: Goodbye 2010 — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:39:50 +0000

[...] foremost, as a year of the renaissance sprung by Lapata’s posts – for which readers have the bureaucratic morass of academy, “the insane rants of an inflamed tea-partier”, and Sepoy’s badgering to thank – [...]

By: From the Department of Unfinished Business

From the Department of Unfinished Business — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:50:24 +0000

[...] of you may be old enough to remember a letter to an academic journal that Sepoy posted last February. Below, I furnish the piece of writing in question for those who are [...]

By: Anil

Anil — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:56 +0000

Lapata, that’s probably because it’s only been what, a few days? a few weeks? Give it a year, or three.

By: lapata

lapata — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:56:10 +0000

Oddly, there has been no response.

By: desiknitter

desiknitter — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:53:51 +0000

LOL @ Qalandar.
I want to know what the editor wrote back in response. Please please tell.

By: Begam Samru

Begam Samru — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:06:53 +0000

Arre vah!

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:19:22 +0000

Man, I am so dense — didn’t realize the moniker was the Hindi/Urdu word “laa-pataa” :-)

By: sepoy

sepoy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:50:24 +0000

@AK: Lapata is here: http://daisyrockwell.com/home.html

By: Tiffin

Tiffin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:54:46 +0000

Shabash!

By: biryanilady

biryanilady — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:59:18 +0000

LMAO!

vah vah.

a vicarious triumph for all us poor and beseeching folks still in the game.

By: Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:44:58 +0000

Can we name names here? Or at least a little bit more of what we might call the feel of specificity. I want to quote this exchange. It is hilarious, of course, but also a great comment on our academic world.