I am suddenly inundated by a bunch of comprehensive multi-page referee reports that show clear evidence of the papers having been read through carefully, with on point comments and even constructive suggestions for improvements. Three in the space of two weeks. What is going on?!
Did you do a spectral fit, and it converged, but it left you unsatisfied with its quality? Think it could have done better, but you can't justify pushing the model any further because the χ² is apparently "good enough"? Then this recipe, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad18b5, by @anshumanastro and me is what you are looking for. It lets you analyze trends in the residuals and control systematics, allowing you to access and use information that wasn't used in the χ² minimization.
@grammargirl Is the phrase "in <blank>'s stead" or "in good stead" a split infinitive? It seems like it should be, but the insertion is not an adverb, and stead is not a verb, so does it qualify?
Seriously, it took me six hours to fill out four reference forms, two of which already had pdf templates from which I could copy and paste. This is not sustainable. FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEES, PLEASE STOP DOING THIS.
@grammargirl Help, please, to find examples of and to explain the "Y, but Y" rhetorical construction!
I had a sentence in a newsletter saying how someone was not getting enough credit for work when *** all, but all, *** of what we do now is based on their work. But it was unfamiliar to the editor, a native English speaker! I couldn't explain the reasoning behind it other than that I could swear it was widely used! I tried to search for examples, but it is hard to know what to search for.
The evolution in the structure from 1920 to 2005 gives a clue perhaps -- there are supposed to be other contextualizing words that are subsumed in the later version for the sake of brevity. Though I can't quite figure out how to expand the latter to make it look like the former!