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Old January 7th 09, 03:53 AM posted to rec.collecting.paper-money
Padraic Brown
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Default New U.S. $100 Bill

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:49:00 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Hi,
This is totally off topic but I want to ask something.
If you go to the link below and just above the guys opening a box you
will see the following:

................workforce or make all sorts of cuts [that] diminish
the value of our company ........................

What is the reason for putting the 'that' in square brackets? Was it
not in the original stuff that the writer of the page is quoting form?
Did they change 'which' to 'that' perhaps?


Brackets generally mean that the quote has been altered in some way by
the editor. The original speaker could have made a quick aside, or
perhaps an example of potential cuts, or he could have launced into
some long diatribe or an irrelevant tangent. A good editor will not
torture future readers by subjecting them to stuff that isn't
appropriate to the topic at hand.

I suppose it is possible that the editor could have changed "which" to
"that", but I think that would be shoddy editorship and a senseless
change. If the original speaker had used a word incorrectly (or
ideosyncratically) and the editor wished to note that the use was
original to the speaker, he would generally leave it be and place
"(sic)" -- "thus" -- after the word in question.

Padraic

Perhaps I need a life worring about such things


Thanks.
http://craneinsider.blogspot.com/sea...ican%20History

JH

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