Rewriting other people's words is completely unacceptable IMO. Scholars should be judged what they said and did in their social and historical context. But you can't do that unless you tell the truth about what they actually said!
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Replying to @Homoloquax1 @Abebab
We paraphrase all the time. It's perfectly good practice, depending on the context of the immediate conversation or point to be made. Certainly making the original text unavailable would be unacceptable.
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Replying to @okeefekat @Abebab
If its paraphrasing then that's fine but there are quotation marks around the text suggesting to most scholars its a direct quote.
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Replying to @Homoloquax1 @okeefekat
The [ ] around 'hu' shows that it's a prefix added to original
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Replying to @Abebab @okeefekat
So it does, my apologies, I hadn't noticed that. I still think it's a bad idea to add prefix in quote when it's unnecessary to explain meaning. Perhaps other scholars are as un observant as myself
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But it can be necessary to explain the meaning. It is not always clear in classic texts whether or not ‘men’ and ‘mankind’ was used to include other people besides men, either in principle or in spirit.
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So is confusion over meaning the reason for the amendment? Really? I didn't think I was quite that old - even Darwin used it in an inclusive sense.
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Replying to @Homoloquax1 @IrisVanRooij and
I think it's inherently exclusive TBH to say men instead of people, for example — but I know what you mean, the different intentions behind it do exist. However, the different intentions may differ from reader to reader as well as speaker to speaker.
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Replying to @o_guest @Homoloquax1 and
It's complex as even "people" or "citizens" can be used exclusively/to erase. For example, one might say citizens could vote in Ancient Athens (which BTW is what I was taught at school) but the truth is that only men (who had been through military training as ephebes) could vote.
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Speaking of citizenship...pic.twitter.com/eH7ntBmF1X
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Could not have expressed it more eloquently.
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted deathnography :) 🤯
BTW this seems apropos.https://twitter.com/XdeathnographyX/status/979453261899075584?s=19 …
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