Posted by Lou Pilder on April 9, 2003, at 15:16:39
In reply to Re: Quick question Lou... » Lou Pilder, posted by NikkiT2 on April 9, 2003, at 14:58:13
NikkiT2,
The use of quotation marks is not the same as the use of brackets such as,[...].
Quotation marks mean the exact language that you are referring to from what someone else wrote. The brackets do not necessarily mean that what is contained by them is to be the {exact} words of what someone else wrote here, but a shortened version. It is generally accepted that the three dots within the brackets means that there has been a shortening of what someone else wrote, or said. An example using quotes would be, lets say if a person was telling someone what they read in the sport page of their newspaper to another person :
"The New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Socks today at Fenway Park in a rain-shortened game by the score of 3 to 0. The attendance was 25, 763. There were no home runs"
Then with brackets indicating a paraphrase we have:
[...the Yankees beat the Red Sox today, 3 zip...].
Lou
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