Wordie: Ibid: Comments

Comment by mollusque, 9 months ago

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:44:18 +0000

Ibid has quite a libido.

Comment by reesetee, 9 months ago

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:20:33 +0000

Wow. That describes it exactly: a vague feeling of danger. Poor Ibid. I miss it so.

Comment by chained_bear, 9 months ago

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:29:05 +0000

I have a vague feeling of danger when I see this term. It comes from using it in college/grad school papers. In word processing programs, footnotes are automatically renumbered when you cut/paste text and move it around. Unfortunately the auto-renumbering feature does not extend to changing the "ibid" in the actual footnote when it refers to the source listed in the footnote directly before it.

So while you're editing your doc, all the Ibids are moving around in the footnotes. That's a recipe for disaster. So I never use them anymore.

Comment by John, 9 months ago

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:36:12 +0000

Latin, short for "ibidem", "the same place".