WHEN THEY WRITE

WHAT THEY REALLY REALLY MEANS IS...

It has been known that...

I haven't bothered to look at the original reference

.. of great theoretical and practical importance

... interesting to me

While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions...

The experiments didn't work out, but I figured I could at least get a publication out of it

Three of the samples were chosen for a detailed study...

The results of the others didn't make sense and were ignored

Typical results are shown...

The best results are shown...

A typical example is ...

The model works only for this example

This is left for future research

It is impossible to do it

Presumably at longer timer...

I didn't take time to find out

The agreement with the predicted curve is: excellent/good/satisfactory/fair

Fair/poor/doubtful/imaginary

... as good as could be expected

Non-existent

These results will be reported at a later date

I might possibly get around to this sometime

The most reliable values are those of Jones

He was a student of mine

It is generally believed that...

A couple of other guys think so too

It might be argued that...

I have such a good answer for this objection that I shall now raise it

It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding

I don't understand it

This is beyond the scope of this paper

I don't have a clue

Unfortunately, a quantitative theory to account has not been formulated

Neither does anybody else

Correct within an order of magnitude

Wrong

It is hoped that this work will stimulate further work in the field

This paper isn't very good, but neither are any others in this miserable subject

Thanks are to Joe Glotz for assistance and to John Doe for valuable discussion

Glotz did the work and Doe explained what it means