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Old 06-08-2019, 01:53 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
The usual purpose of a footnote is to explain (cite) or expand on something

If they didn't get it the first time (the note appeared), are they going to 'get it' any of the 91 other times?
Yeah. It seems to me that anything important enough to be cited 92 times should probably have been in the main flow of the book instead of a footnote.
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