# Does this sound odd in a scientific article?

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**Created:** [May 13, 2004, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-sound-odd-in-a-scientific-article/244931 "2004-05-13T11:03:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-sound-odd-in-a-scientific-article/244931/21 "2004-05-14T02:32:08Z")

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Ah, so its a 1920s style Ultraviolet Spectrometer and Polarimeter.

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**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-sound-odd-in-a-scientific-article/244931/22 "2004-05-14T03:40:35Z")

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> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> As odd as that is in a scientific paper, it would probably be even odder elsewhere.

Such as, for example, Hustler.

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**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-sound-odd-in-a-scientific-article/244931/23 "2004-05-14T08:19:59Z")

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Maybe I’m way off, but I think the word awesome in this context should be read as “extremely large” (i.e. awe-inspiring) rather than “totally cool, man.”

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