Whinge of the Day

[highlyeccentric]

I have a new pet hate.
Almost as bad as the universally loathed People Who Don't Translate Quotes... it's People/Publishers Who Reference Journals By Acronym And Never Tell You What It Stands For.

i recognise the common journals of anglo-saxon studies. NM, MA, ASE etc etc ad nauseum. And if i don't recognise something, there is always the wonderful Old English Newsletter Bibliography Database where one can search by article title or author and be given full bibilographical details.
I do not know Middle English acronyms. I would not know PLL from a bar of soap. AM? NLH? they all make as much sense as the talismanic inscriptions i was looking at earlier today.

Grumpy.

On the bright side, Joel is apparently staying here on thursday night.
What does one do with one's sixteen year old brother in the inner suburbs of Sydney on a thursday night? particularly when he doesn't eat exotic food?

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[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

The book/journal should have a list of standardized abbreviations somewhere.

As for Joel, I would thrust him at a pile of ladies and let him work his magic.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

you think i haven't looked? it doesn't. bloody norton edition.
i have emailed LoLo. we'll see what he comes up with.

you going to play with joel and i?

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Hehe, LoLo!

That depends. I'd certainly like to, that's for sure. We'll see how I feel by Thursday.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

urgh. so delayed, mostly thanks to last night's impromptu Meeting Of The Involved Directly and Indirectly In Lynn And Kelly's Business. There'll be a post eventually with Progress. I feel weird being in the middle, but Kelly wants us there, and Lynn sort of needs/needed us.

Have plans been laid for Joel Night?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

yesm :) the goblin is hanging around to meet joel in the afternoon, and then in the evening i'm taking joel to see college cabaret. lotsa young ladies in fishnets. some young men in fishnets. right up joel's alley.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Meet up with or meet for the first time?

and... does Joel really like men in fishnets? Or is it just the generally trampy nature of the fishnets that he likes? :P

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

meet.
(i think they're in love now...)

i dunno. not enquiring. i did just have to take him shopping for hair straighteners, so...

Journal abbreviations

[(Anonymous)]

PLL appears to be Papers in Language and Literature. No further details but that much I got from Googling for 'journal abbreviations PLL'. Similar tactics suggest that NLH is New Literary History. AM is just an impossible search though. My initial reaction is Acta Mediaevalia but that seems desperately unlikely for what you were working on. Oh well.

Re: Journal abbreviations

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

turned out to be annuale medievale :)
I contacted my teacher, who had some unpleasant things to say about the Norton edition we were using.