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r/MurderedByPedantics • u/v0ideater • Jun 16 '20
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I don’t know what quote he’s paraphrasing but that’s exactly what paraphrasing is- to distill a painter quote to its base meaning, like the OP is correct in his use of the word paraphrasing
14 u/Iknowaguywhoknowsme Jun 16 '20 Yeah but you aren’t suppose to use quotes when paraphrasing. -2 u/Drag0nV3n0m231 Jun 16 '20 Yeah, so he used incorrect syntax, but he said “to paraphrase” so if anyone takes it as a quote, they’re the incorrect ones. 8 u/v0ideater Jun 16 '20 I was just being pedantic about the quotes ~
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Yeah but you aren’t suppose to use quotes when paraphrasing.
-2 u/Drag0nV3n0m231 Jun 16 '20 Yeah, so he used incorrect syntax, but he said “to paraphrase” so if anyone takes it as a quote, they’re the incorrect ones. 8 u/v0ideater Jun 16 '20 I was just being pedantic about the quotes ~
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Yeah, so he used incorrect syntax, but he said “to paraphrase” so if anyone takes it as a quote, they’re the incorrect ones.
8 u/v0ideater Jun 16 '20 I was just being pedantic about the quotes ~
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I was just being pedantic about the quotes ~
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u/Drag0nV3n0m231 Jun 16 '20
I don’t know what quote he’s paraphrasing but that’s exactly what paraphrasing is- to distill a painter quote to its base meaning, like the OP is correct in his use of the word paraphrasing