Posted by Lou Pilder on March 26, 2003, at 7:57:09
In reply to Re: please be civil » Dr. Bob, posted by NikkiT2 on March 26, 2003, at 7:03:15
NikkiT2,
You wrote about your use of a direct quote of something that I had written. In that quote, you left out 3 words that I simply asked you to rewrite and include those words because, first, a use of quotation marks means that you are writing the exact words of someone, not a paraphrase,and what you wrote was not the exact statement that I had written, and I thought that the meaning could be different without the 3 words. I simply asked you for correction of your quote,and if someone wanted me to add some more of the paraphrase that I used in order to clarify, I would welcome such a request and accomodate the poster's wishes because this is a mental health bosrd and it has been stated over and over that one should not jump to a conclusion about another poster and that the poster should be[... given the benifit of the doubt...] That is why I had asked you to include the 3 words, not to condem you for leaving them out, but to give you the benifit of the doubt, for the possibility existed that you may have not known that quotation marks are used to write exactly what someone else said or wrote and I was being sensitive to your feelings by making a request, not a condemnation, by asking you to add the words that you but to further the discussion with the exact words, since you used quotation marks and the deletion of the 3 words could have the effect of distorting what I had written. I do not remember writing that you should be admonished by Dr. Bob for it. But if there was a statement by me to Dr. Bob, like you are posting here to request to Dr. Bob, could you give me the URL and allow me to examine such, if it exists, and I will respond accordingly? Are you saying that Dr. Bob admonished you for leaving the words out, and thearfore he should admonish me for paraphrrasing? I did not see any such thing and if there is a post by Dr. Bob admonishing you for leaving out the 3 words, could you give the URL for such so that I could have a better understanding of what you are writing and respond accordingly?
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:201678
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20030221/msgs/212991.html