In my everyday job at university I have to review papers. This requires that I go through the papers and check them for correctness and scientific contribution. Usually, most reviews are not that exiting because scientific papers tend to be written in a very dry style. Things like:

According to Lemma 3.1 that we introduced in Section 3 we now can prove the semantic correctness of the abstract syntax tree with regard to the completeness theorem which we proved in Section 2.

But sometimes I review papers, which are written in a very “flowery” style and which makes the review process fun. I’d like to share a few highlights of a paper I recently reviewed:

… that is responsible for the message payload, itself described with the equally famous protocol SOAP. – I didn’t know that protocols can become famous. Now I do.

… are being increasingly popular for the big usefulness… – Yep – big usefulness is always good.

… should stick by the same concerns stack, this following way. – Sing with me: I will follow you will follow me:

… have simulated the emergence of a new computing paradigm… – I agree: why stimulate when it is much safer to simulate the emergence of new paradigms?

… the context awareness of such applications is the subject of a recent field of studies called – Now? What would you think? – context aware systems. – Hey! That’s what I call a scientific breakthrough!

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