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Originally Posted by TexasCotton
FYI
I have stated this before DO NOT para phrase my posts or statements!!
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par·a·phrase
/ˈperəˌfrāz/
verb
express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.
I did not paraphrase anything. I
quoted. I did not quote the whole post, only the part I was responding to, to help with clarity. Would you rather I had included the rest of the racist garbage in that post? I didn't think it would help with anything, I thought reading it once was more than enough.
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Originally Posted by TexasCotton
DO NOT QUOTE MY POSTS
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Why on Earth not? Especially in a wide ranging thread, it keeps things coherent by showing directly what is being responded to. The quote in your post #402 includes statements from two of my posts, #393 and #395, without differentiating them. #395 was in a slightly different part of this conversation, about bidets. Your post made it look as if I had made the two statements in the same post. It would seem you...
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Originally Posted by TexasCotton
... are slow a wit and are unable to justify the veracity of your own posts..
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Quoting can help reduce confusion. If some users insist on perpetuating confusion, quoting at least helps to document that.