Talk:Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)

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If anyone wants to expand this article, please refer to the two papers I've listed as references. The authors there distinguish between many different types of acknowledgment in scientific literature. —Psychonaut 21:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Humorous statements[edit]

Sometimes, an acknowledgement does not fit into either of the six categories used by Cronin et al., unless in a humourous fashion. An example is

B.J.H. would also like to thank the U.S. Immigration Service under the Bush administration, whose visa background security check forced her to spend two months (following an international conference) in a third country, free of routine obligations—it was during this time that the hypothesis presented herein was initially conjectured.
— He and Raichle (2009)

-- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 10:01, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The example above and a few others are quoted in http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/27/academics_hide_snarky_clever_comments_in_the_acknowledgments_sections_of.html . -- Daniel Mietchen (talk) 01:05, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]