<div dir="auto">Quvar:<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">> I'm glad to see you back on the list</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">muQuchmoH mu'meylIj, jupwI' ! naDev vIcheghta'mo' jIbel je.</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">qunnoq</span></div><br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 Jul 2017 10:40 pm, "Lieven" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">Am 07.07.2017 um 09:26 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:<br>
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I didn't paraphrase. I quoted the passage exactly as it is written.<br>
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Quoting can be difficult sometimes. If I proceed now I could say<br>
"mayqel quoted the passage exactly as it is written"<br>
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I did indeed quote your message as it was written and only added your name, so the meaning of the phrase is not wrong. Still, I have changed the quote. If I would now say that you wrote the above phrase, then it really is NOT correct, because you did not start it with "mayqel quoted ..." - did you?<br>
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See the difference? A proper way to quote is really just quoting what was originally written, so in my own example, I should say that mayqel "quoted the passage exactly as it is written".<div class="quoted-text"><br>
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But since at the boQwI' entry, no referrence was made to the fact that<br>
it was written by Qov, then how was I supposed to know its original<br>
source in order to quote it ?<br>
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That is true. First, the footnotes are really only for advanced speakers who can handle them. Next, boQwI' is constantly growing, so this featue may be added one day.<div class="quoted-text"><br>
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If I just wrote "I read somewhere..", then someone would ask "where<br>
did you read it ?".<br>
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That was not the problem, the problem was the way of quoting.<br>
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But keep going the way you are! Your kind of questions shows that you are really going into the language. I'm glad to see you back on the list. :-)<div class="elided-text"><br>
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