What is MLA and APA?
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Chicago, APA and MLA are different citation standards. At the end of books or papers you will see a bunch of references and they are all in the same format, these standards dictate the order of information (eg title, author, chapter, volume, page number...)
Your disdain for these manuals of style is blatantly visible in your omission of the serial comma, which all three recommend using ಠ_ಠ
All my homies love the Oxford comma
Ha! My background is science, honestly I just plug everything into endnote and it does it for me I can't be bothered to learn the format.
AP doesn't
Ah. Never heard of these. Thanks for the explanation.
What, Wizard Seminary doesn't believe in citations? It's just a free for all of plagiarism?
That sounds awesome, actually.
Not really. I am just not from the US so we use different standards
writing standards and styles guides
He knows about other things too, but they're only tangentially related
He’s gonna take on saTan()
sin cos
trigonometry 🤝 consequentialist ethics
Love this one the most. So many levels. Practically multivariable.
He's going to decrease sin by increasing the amount of pie in the Vatican, because as we know the sin of pi is 0 :3
He's Nature's Pope
Since he has a STEM degree, he's still an APA Pope