Ed and all,
You are quite right here in being explicit in explaining to William
"Context Within Quotes", Ed. I am however doubtful that William
will except this common grammatical procedure. It may be beyond
his grammatical background or education level. A unfortunate shame
to be sure. But I believe that you were indeed trying to be helpful,
and I for one thank you for your effort. >;)
Ed Gerck wrote:
> "William X. Walsh" wrote:
>
> > On 13-Jan-2000 Ed Gerck wrote:
> > > William:
> > >
> > > You may have missed in your caustic remark that Chuck
> > > was replying to *my* argument -- which he referred to
> > > as "this situation*. So, what I included within brackets
> > > (following standard procedure for introducing context
> > > in quotes) is no more and no less than what I wrote
> > > and which is part of his reply -- as you may consult
> > > the archives for.
> >
> > Then seperate it out all together, instead of inserting it in brackets. You
> > can include a short summary of the situation your proposed without polluting
> > his comments with your editorial.
>
> You seem to be unfamiliar with standard procedures for providing
> context withn quotes -- including comments. The procedure can
> be however exemplified in good form by my text inserted to provide a
> context for "this situation" and "I agree with you" -- both of which
> become dangling clauses if the context is NOT provided.
>
> So, rather than being optional, my properly bracketed insert is needed,
> as I quoted Chuck:
>
> > "I agree with you that the Registry would be of no help in this situation
> > [namely, the facts that the Registrar follows a sales system (Shared
> > Registry) that denies tracing the Registry for any customer, denies
> > responsibility to the customer from the Registry, denies access to the
> > Registry's logs in order to prove customer's rights, keeps the
> > property of what is sold with the reseller, gives the customer no
> > authority over what was bought, and denies legal recourse as the
> > customer may see fit] unless there is evidence of a violation of the
> > Registry-Registrar agreement. However, I do not think this is a
> > problem." Chuck Gomes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed Gerck
>
> PS:
> And, to be clear, they are NOT editorial comments -- they are context
> quotes within brackets so that everyone knows that they were not
> uttered by Chuck but they provide the context for his words. Otherwise
> his words would have no meaning -- both "I agree with you" and
> "this situation" are fully undefined.
>
> I explain this not because I want to show who is right or wrong here,
> William. I explain this because one of the main problems in DNS debates
> is that far too often declarations are taken out of context, exagerated,
> etc. The standard way to provide context is what I did. Please either
> understand or accept this ;-)
Regards,
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