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[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Scientific papers should be timeless. Can you imagine the hell of having to research the pop culture and slang of an era just to understand a paper written in it?

[-] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 months ago

To be fair, I think that's what the part after the colon was for.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah this kind of casual title is very rare, and it's always just a small addition to an otherwise straightforward title. No one would allow for a purely cheeky title and no author would want one anyway. The first thing people use to judge the relevance of your paper is the title. If it's not immediately obvious what it's about, they're not going to look further. Immediately obvious for someone in a related field, anyway.