Scholars have a nifty way of alerting colleagues to lengthy treatises that they find simply not worth their time to read.
They tag such documents “tl;dr”—too long, didn’t read.
It’s kind of a 21st century spin on the 420-year-old notion Shakespeare’s Polonius relayed to the king and queen in “Hamlet”: “Brevity,” he suggested, “is the soul of wit.”
Not nice