Black Wizard
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My Masters dissertation had six pages of references.
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
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Well, I've heard that the grade of a dissertation is proportional to the number of references, and proportional to the inverse of the number of pages of text
Dr. Eddies Wingman
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You know, with all the work in this one, it had better be the first MA dissertation to receive scl.
SCL? Enlighten me please, I'm not too familiar with academic acronyms outside of Norway (except for the most common names of degrees).
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
With highest honours?
Dr. Eddies Wingman
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Ah. The term that is often simplified to "Laud" in Norwegian.
Saapanael
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
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I read up on it and it appears I was mistaken. It seems "Laud" covers a wider range than "summa cum laude" - it also covers "magna cum laude" and "cum laude".
Black Wizard
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That word is used in English sometimes, as in "Wingman has been lauded for his achievements".
Dr. Eddies Wingman
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So that was the origin of the term "lauded"? One learns something every day.
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
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It's from Latin laudare - to laud.
You're more of an etymologist than I am, so I'll take your word (pun intended) for it.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- "to sing", which is also the root of German "Lied".
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