When quoting other posts?

dulpit · 07-09-2007 2:41pm #1

So I was wondering, when you quote other people's posts do you correct stuff like spelling & grammar??? I was replying earlier, noticed some horrible spelling mistakes (they're instead of their, your instead of you're, etc.)

It got me a thinking, is it bad form to correct the spelling? Is there any other etiquette when it comes to quoting others??

(p.s. it's a friday evening, waiting to finish work for weekend, hence the random post)

ScumLord · 07-09-2007 2:43pm

I think it's rude to correct the mistakes just publicly point them out at the bottom of your post.

Orlee · 07-09-2007 2:43pm

I know what YOUR talking about - it's tempting but since it's a "Quote" I'd tend to leave it as it is therefore making it an actual quote

Spud83 · 07-09-2007 2:43pm

dulpit wrote:

So I was wondering, when you quote other people's posts do you correct stuff like spelling & grammar??? I was replying earlier, noticed some horrible spelling mistakes (they're instead of their, your instead of you're, etc.)

It got me a thinking, is it bad form to correct the spelling? Is there any other etiquette when it comes to quoting others??

(p.s. it's a Friday evening, waiting to finish work for weekend, hence the random post)

Fixed that for ya:rolleyes:

Smellyirishman · 07-09-2007 2:44pm

I'll do it some times, but then occasionally when I realise what I'm doing, I'll change them back

. Other times, I'll just be auto-correcting anything with a red line under it (Firefox).

Orlee · 07-09-2007 2:45pm

AlanMurphy83

Can't belive I missed that - I was looking through the post hoping for a spelling mistake to fix!

Clare Bear · 07-09-2007 2:45pm

alanmurphy83 wrote:

Fixed that for ya:rolleyes:

Ha ha ha

No I wouldn't do it, I think it's rude. It's only a message board, everything doesn't have to be perfect anyway!

Crucifix · 07-09-2007 2:47pm

Orlee wrote:

AlanMurphy83

Can't belive I missed that - I was looking through the post hoping for a spelling mistake to fix!

I was gonna go for three question marks in a row being bad grammar, but that was pretty tenuous.

I say leave the mistakes in. A quote is a quote. You can always throw in (sic) if you really can't help yourself.

Duiske · 07-09-2007 2:47pm

ScumLord wrote:

I think it's rude to correct the mistakes just publicly point them out at the bottom of your post.

Agreed.

Perhaps a comma/full stop between the words Mistake and Just would help readers ?

dulpit · 07-09-2007 2:51pm

Smellyirishman wrote:

Other times, I'll just be auto-correcting anything with a red line under it (Firefox).

That's actually why I do it, because Firefox shows them up.

(I apologise with the Friday, I had considered a deliberate mistake to get you lot going, but that one I missed)

The Bollox · 07-09-2007 2:53pm

I would do it if someone uses txt spk to make a show of them

Agamemnon · 07-09-2007 2:54pm

Duiske_Lad wrote:

Perhaps a comma/full stop between the words "mistakes" and "just" would help readers?

Fixed your post.

Duiske · 07-09-2007 2:55pm

agamemnon wrote:

Fixed your post.

I was...errrr....just testing you.

Rhyme · 07-09-2007 3:01pm

I'm not fond of misquoting even if it's something as small as a missing letter or apostrophe.

daveirl · 07-09-2007 3:03pm

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Agamemnon · 07-09-2007 3:04pm

Duiske_Lad wrote:

I was...errrr....just testing you.

Good man. We both pass.

cast_iron · 07-09-2007 3:21pm

agamemnon wrote:

Good man. We both pass.

Actually, I think you will find ye both fail.

Niamho! · 07-09-2007 3:26pm

QUESTION!!!!

how do ya quote Different Parts of Multiple Posts??
Its a Friday evening and if nobody can be arsed explaining its Cool....

smashey · 07-09-2007 3:27pm

Orlee wrote:

AlanMurphy83

Can't belive I missed that - I was looking through the post hoping for a spelling mistake to fix!

Spell Czechs ftw.

patrickc · 07-09-2007 3:31pm

nah leave them on, not everyone has perfect english, and theres also dyslexic people too who might be embarassed to say so.

cast_iron · 07-09-2007 3:31pm

Niamho! wrote:

QUESTION!!!!

how do ya quote Different Parts of Multiple Posts??
Its a Friday evening and if nobody can be arsed explaining its Cool....

You put the quote tags around each part you want to quote!

For example: (remove the space before the "=" sign)

Niamho! wrote:

QUESTION!!!!

Write response here.

Niamho! wrote:

how do ya quote Different Parts of Multiple Posts??

Write next response here.

stovelid · 07-09-2007 3:35pm

correcting quoted posts = O.C.D.

Dave! · 07-09-2007 3:37pm

I'm not a f*cking English teacher for gods sake....... If there's something in the post that is hard to understand, then I'll make a bit of an alteration so that other people looking at me quoting it will know what I'm responding to.

But in general, no, I don't care to.

Orlee · 07-09-2007 3:44pm

Originally Posted by Orlee
AlanMurphy83

Can't belive I missed that - I was looking through the post hoping for a spelling mistake to fix!

smashey wrote:

Spell Czechs ftw.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Friday - ruined

Tar.Aldarion · 07-09-2007 3:52pm

Every time you correct an error, a Spell Czech god is born.

stcatherine · 07-09-2007 3:54pm

Na, I leave it as it is.

If your quoting a long post but only a small amount of it is relevant to your answer do you delete the non relevant stuff from the quote ? ... I do !

(does that even make sense ?)

Smellyirishman · 07-09-2007 3:57pm

stcatherine wrote:

If you're quoting a long post but only a small amount of it is relevant to your answer do you delete the non relevant stuff from the quote ?

Yeah.

The Bollox · 07-09-2007 4:11pm

yeah, what's the point of quoting the whole speil if you are just commenting on certain points?

marius · 07-09-2007 4:13pm

If you are really worried about just use (sic)

Genghiz Cohen · 07-09-2007 4:24pm

Niamho! wrote:

Question!

How do you quote different parts of multiple posts?
It's a Friday evening and if no-one could be bothered explaining its fine.

I right click on "Post Reply" and open that page in a new tab, then copy and paste the relevant quotes into my new post then use the "Wrap

tags around selected text" on each seperate peice of text.

Pinker · 07-09-2007 5:14pm

It would indeed be bad manners, unless it was blatantly bad like txt spk, you may not know whether or not someone has dyslexia or some other form of learning of disability, would you advise someone with a limp how to walk?. In general when quoting someone and wishing to identify their syntactical errors you enter (sic) beside said mistake
for example: 'Their(sic) are many ways to make dough' Mr.Brennan (1978)

lemansky · 07-09-2007 5:21pm

I would leave it as it doesn't bother me. I wouldn't even bother with sticking in a (sic).

I have to say though, that I never thought about the whole dyslexia thing. More reason for me to leave it, as knowing my luck if I did correct somebody, it would turn out to be somebody with dyslexia....:(

tolosenc · 07-09-2007 5:26pm

Well, you'd be needing to "fly the flag". (See sig)

biko · 07-09-2007 5:45pm

I want to correct it but that would be too much

Btw, I may have been the first person banned from the Spell Czechs.

Agamemnon · 07-09-2007 5:50pm

biko wrote:

I may have been the first person banned from the Spell Czechs.

What did you do, use txt spk? What goes on in that forum anyway?

When quoting other posts?

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