I found a Perl module that instead of ending in the typical 1; to indicate a true value for the module so that the require or use succeeds, it instead ends with the string "All your base are belong to us" — which is equally true, but gee.
Do news outlets change ungrammatical writing in quoted text to grammatical ?
> Abdel Moneim Sharif, another protester, shared that sentiment: "We're not going to [stop protesting] until Morsi is restored to president and democracy is restored to Egypt."
@Noah More likely the protestor said "We're not going to until Morsi is restored to president and democracy is restored to Egypt" and the parenthetical addition clarifies what they're not going to.
Probably, the journalist said to the protestor "When are you going to stop protesting?" or "Are you ever going to stop protesting?", or even "What would it take for you to stop protesting?" - something of that ilk. The response would have been "We're not going to, until Morsi is restored to president and democracy is restored to Egypt." But it would have made no sense to quote this, without adding the part in square brackets. As a general rule, square brackets indicate something that's been added to a quotation, that wasn't what was originally said.
Reading Einstein's quotes for some time I came across one that doesn't seem to make logical sense.
"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler"
Now 'Make things as simple as possible' sets a limit. So how can you exceed that limit with 'but not simpler'
While I understand that ever...
So then how was it that they said they would restore Moris to President?
I mean Morsi*
>@Noah More likely the protestor said "We're not going to until Morsi is restored to president and democracy is restored to Egypt" and the parenthetical addition clarifies what they're not going to.
The point is, they were trying for a parallel construction for purposes of a rhetorical flourish—"... until X is restored to Y and A is restored to B"—so they forced the issue, even though one part had to use an awkward construction to achieve that effect.
@Noah They don't fix broken English unless it's unintelligible. Oftentimes they'll sic 'em: "He said they isn't [sic] going."
Most often when you see brackets in quotations it means the reporter is changing syntax to include information to make a shorter quote clearer, as David Wallace says, by adding information that is not clear from the fragment quoted but stated elsewhere in context.
My point about "dems not speak da good English" referred to the Al Jazeera writer, not whoever he was quoting. And don't forget all this was translated, adding a further level of misdirection.
Hello, I would like to ask a question about an article in the following comment of a data format: "[Informative] Number of boys in the class". I'm not sure if "the" article should be in front of the noun "Number". I think I've seen somewhere that the article is not used in this case but I'm not sure. What do you think?
Is the reason that this place is so dead here on the weekends is because people use it as a place to goof-off during work hours of the work week, and so on weekends they goof off elsewhere instead?
When I hear hype I think that some company want you to think something is hot, when I hear buzz I think of some MBA type wanting you to think he is ahead of the game. I don't know the language though
@phpNఠ_ఠbie Hype (hyperbole) is over-sell by the marketer. The reality generally does not live up to the hype. Buzz is noise, specifically the noise of something being talked about. Buzz doesn't just include marketer noise but also whatever is being said independently.
All I have to say to my family who hates muskmelon: more for me.
@MετάEd Tell them it’s cantaloup, served as a prophylactic to young girls of marriageable age that they not run off and get married to a young werewolf without their parents’ blessing.
Reading Einstein's quotes for some time I came across one that doesn't seem to make logical sense.
"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler"
Now 'Make things as simple as possible' sets a limit. So how can you exceed that limit with 'but not simpler'
While I understand that ever...
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