Huh, I agree with you – if I see a footnote, I assume there's some fascinating inter-textual detail about to be revealed, and when I find it's just a fairly obvious gloss it can be quite irritating. That's what a good dictionary's for! American editions are particularly bad for over-glossing in my experience.
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Date: 2006-09-26 08:21 am (UTC)