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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago

My personal favorite

And the journals quickly recognized her expertise. John Humphrey, the editor of the Journal of Roman Archaeology told the Wall Street Journal: ”I could tell even from the first version that it was a very serious piece of experimental archaeology which no scholar who was not a hairdresser—in other words, no scholar—would have been able to write.”

Interests, professions, hobbies, and traditions all bring valuable insight that cannot be ignored in historical research. For archeologists and historians, to reach out to a specialist is wisdom; to have a specialist reach out to you is a blessing.

The editor, casually reading the paper and then realizing that 100+ years of translators have fucked up because they weren't also hairdressers