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Does a cross (and also a cross with two cross-bars;almost like 2 '+' signs on top of one another) after someone's name specifically mean anything? It's almost like they should be asteriscs, but there's no corresponding cross at the bottom of the page. I was just wondering if they meant "Dr." or "Prof." or anything like that. Ta. |
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how is this to do with academia, and do you have an example as I don't really understand what you mean..? |
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coz if u arren't yourr dumb |
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oh yeah I forgot that |
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Well, it's to do with academia because I have an abstract of an academic paper, and there are 4 academic's names (3 of whom I know are Doctors, the 4th I'm not sure about), the 3 of them who are doctors have crosses after their name and this 4th one has the weird double cross symbol I described. I suspect that the crosses mean "Doctor" (as in the academic title; not physician) and the double cross means "Master" or "Professor", I was wondering if this was the case. I thought academics would be better placed to answer this as they're more likely to regularly read academicaly stylised papers, written by academics. I know crosses are sometimes used instead of asterisks (often in legal texts), however, in this instance, there are no crosses at the bottom of the page (or anywhere else in the text) that correspond to these. |
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could it mean "deceased"? |
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Good suggestion, but I saw all 4 of them a few months back, so unless there has been a serial killer targeting leading computer forensicists, I think in this case it's something else. :) |
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wow, ive seen dozens of those and i never wondered what they meant. ill see if i can find what they mean |
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‡ That's called a "double dagger" and it's usually used to indicate a footnote. |
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is it an ? |
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I woul guess that it can also be: Written by: Dr Derek F **, Dr Phil **, Dr Strangelove '' ** means: employed at UCLA '' means: employed at Harvard or something? |
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what mortsto says. they're creative pointers. as far as i know there's no special meaning in them |
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o, and there should be a corresponding cross at the bottom of the page. perhaps you've got a bad copy? |
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