[WikiEN-l] Plagiarism

[Jay Litwyn]

Fools talk about [this noise]. I prefer talking about [[moderated stuff]]. 
The problem with using quotation marks for sarcasm is that your opponents 
might be reading it in opposing light. I agree that many people do not know 
the rules for curlies, either. I do not. They seem to be royal edicts from 
people who prefer "vague" to "foggy".
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http://tinyurl.com/NinjaRinger (Turn your volume down, way down, before you 
listen to that, because those are physical harmonics with one 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fundamental_frequency, so that voice carries).

<WJhonson at aol.com> wrote in message news:c51.48f1df00.36fa9abb 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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