When I see:
“[We] believe that we are awesome…”
I’m ok. However, when I see:
“[C]onstitutional rights here are being…”
I get [v]ery worried about that single letter, especially when I find them in [d]ocuments that should have no [t]ypos.
[d]oushite
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3 responses to “[d]oushite”
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The “[C]” in that quote is not correcting a typographical error; it’s an editorial note showing that the person extracting the quote has substituted “C” for some other text. The most likely original text being “c”.
In other words, they’re saying “this *could* have started a sentence, and I’m using it that way in my quote; but in the original text, it’s actually in the middle of a sentence without the capital C at the start”.
Just like the “[We]” in your other quote is simply saying “I substituted this word because it’s the word that makes the grammar work when I extract this quote from the rest of the sentence, and doesn’t change the meaning at all”.
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But what if they’re talking about something else entirely? Like Monstitutional rights? Monsters need rights too!
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bignose — yeah, that’s why I was ok with things like [We] but not C. Now that I know that the c didn’t just appear out of nowhere, I’m more comfortable with c.
Christina — Totally. I’d like to claim my monstitutional claim too.
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