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I do not know islamic traditions, I in no way mean to offend.
If you quote me, do not change whats in the quotes. It really changes my meaning.
I am from The USA and we are not supposed to madify any words when we quote.:?
Is this a islamic custom (changeing quotes) that I should be aware of?
Thank You
No this is not an Islamic only thing. You may have already noticed many of the members are not Muslim. A forum itself has no religion. The members of the forum are the ones with the religion.
I see what you are seeing as changing quotes. Many of us will either highlight, color, underline the part of a quote we are addressing, to point out what our reply directs to. the original statement remains unchanged, and if a person desires to see the original statement they need only click on the little arrow next to the name.
This simply means the entire post is not being referred to, just the highlighted portion. The rest is just shown to verify the source.
There is no intent to alter your words. The purpose is to provide reference to what is being addressed. I'm in the US also and this is standard practice on nearly every forum I belong to.
Your original words in the original post remain unchanged.
For example if I wanted to address part of my first paragraph, I would do this.
No this is not an Islamic only thing. You may have already noticed many of the members are not Muslim. A forum itself has no religion. The members of the forum are the ones with the religion.
I have not changed the quote, I have highlighted the part I wish to talk about and showing the source of the original statement.
In this case I would be addressing that I had made the statement that a forum has no religion.
If I were to quote that statement alone like this:
A forum itself has no religion.
That would be taking it out of context and I could address it in any manner I choose and give meanings to it that were not intended in the full paragraph.