In a message dated 10/22/2008 3:36:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, thomas.dalton@gmail.com writes:

However, most of our articles don't say that. They say "Y [X]", which isn't the same thing.>>

------------------------------------ Sure, and in those cases where a situation is becoming fraught with controversy over sourcing, the appropriate thing to do in the case where we have an article that says "Y [X]" would be to change it to something like "It's been reported by X that ""Y"" "

Most things don't reach that level of controversy and so people take shortcuts, which of course makes the article more readable anyhow, and is generally the way writers write. They only quote things likely to be of high interest being extraordinary, bizarre, appropos or curious.

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