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by future archaeologist on March 23rd, 2009

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Why do authors insert (read:____) in their sentences?

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  • by WayTooUgly on August 26th, 2009

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    Selected by the asker, future archaeologist. (What's this?)

    If I understand your question correctly, and the time without an answer tends to tell me that, I'd say whatever you're reading is fairly dated and the practice has fallen off (read: is very old).

    It is/was a way of saying, "I'm saying *this* (but I really mean *this*), as in my example above.

    It's kinda stylistic and not too fashionable these days.

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