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> If you think that the statement in that post was actually meant to refer to something other than the common trope, I'd be curious why Nope, we're in agreemen
by ChrisAntaki 12y ago
> If you think that the statement in that post was actually meant to refer to something other than the common trope, I'd be curious why
Nope, we're in agreement there.
> the point of the quote marks in that parenthetical was to denote common tropes that appear in his comment, not to use his exact language.
Exact language can be important, especially when quotes are being directly sequenced. In this case, sequencing two quotes with different subjects, while modifying the second quote to be more subject agnostic, is problematic.
> I'm sorry that their usage was confusing.
No worries, sounds like you didn't intentionally modify the quote to redefine the meaning at all.