[CrackMonkey] Re: breaking the ; habit (fwd)

[Monkey Master]

begin  Rick Moen Lives Three Hours from Nowhere quotation:
> Bob opined that the best solution was to correct the quoted text on
> the fly without comment.  He said, what's the speaker going to do,
> call you up and complain "Hey, how dare you make me look literate"?
> 
> So, that's what I do -- except, of course, on the frequent occasions
> when I want to look smarmy.

	Exactly.  [sic] is mostly useful in cases where a quotation
makes an incorrect statement that is nearly irrelevant to the point
you were making by quoting it.

	And, of course, for being smarmy.

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