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To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question
theodp writes "The NY Times' Virginia Heffernan confesses to being stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. For example, Heffernan notes she could quote kavya on Yahoo Answers word for word ('How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?'), but worries that doing so makes kavya look like an idiot rather that the sweetly earnest 7-year-old that he or she might be. Is it better to paraphrase or revise the question into 'How is a baby formed?' For now, Heffernan is going to let things stand (stet) and treat message boards like novels, preserving idiosyncrasies of language as far as possible and taking them as intentional — a 'wuz' on the Internet remains 'wuz' in the paper."
This thing still cracks me up every time. I love it.
Yes, you are the third person to comment so. I've only ever heard "egalitarian" in a derogatory context, and I thought I'd typed "elitist". Since it wasn't an obvious spelling error, I missed it when I reread the preview. Everyone thinks you're so very very clever for saying what two people have already stated, about a simple mistake someone has made. Next time, attach that powerful brain to a spine and don't post anonymously.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll