[WikiEN-l] Plagiarism

[WJhonson at aol.com]

The problem with extending the use of square brackets to cover sarcasm,  
tongue-in-cheek and incredulity is that square brackets traditionally mean "this  
context is being added and was not previously present in the quoted text".   
I.E. The Prime Minister stated, "Yesterday Mrs [George] Jones went to  
Hampshire."  The editor of the top-most source is inserting "George" not to  convey 
emotional meaning, but merely to convey contextual meaning within a  quoted 
phrase.
 
Also, I believe the use of quotes to cover the cases I mentioned is already  
present in materials.
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/24/2009 8:18:44 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:

I think  square 
brackets work better for your second case, because newspapers use  them to 
correct grammar and insert  context

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