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Whenever I see “go home and bite [his] pillow”, I’ve always assumed the person spoke quickly and/or skipped a word, which the editor thought should be added. It
by zeroimpl 6y ago
Whenever I see “go home and bite [his] pillow”, I’ve always assumed the person spoke quickly and/or skipped a word, which the editor thought should be added. It never occurred to me before now that the editor actually replaced a word!
- titzer 6y agoMe too, which lowers my opinion of the speaker!
- ddingus 6y agoRight? Prior to this discussion, my thought was similar, typo, or something benign. Replacing a word breaks the syntax and brings ambiguity to some use cases involving brackets and quotes that did not have it before. As I mentioned elsewhere, a similar thing happened with the one space vs. two spaces to end a sentence. In that last sentence, there is now ambiguity after "vs. " where there was not before. Right now I am on desktop, but if I were to input that sentence on my Android, "two" would be auto-capitalized, even though I am mid sentence. I see this headed a similar direction. Cases where the actual verbatim expression may be made more clear with something added in brackets will now overlap with cases where someone wants to replace a word in a quote... Sigh :(