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Old Thu Jun 18, 2009, 10:07am
Brett Brett is offline
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Originally Posted by Rich Ives View Post
You added the [sole] to my post. Very bad form.
Had I added it without calling attention to the fact that is was added editorially (with the brackets) for clarification to the point you were trying to make, I'd agree with you. It's common practice when quoting someone to add or modify words when necessary to give context to a quote without the surrounding context of the original quote or to help the flow of the sentence. Don't like it? Too bad.
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