tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post115897555386881050..comments2024-01-25T12:33:03.851+10:30Comments on Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is: IT WAS THE CARROTS THAT KEEP PAKISTAN ON SIDE, NOT THE THREAT OF THE STICK!Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-1159307588017285292006-09-27T07:23:00.000+09:302006-09-27T07:23:00.000+09:30Nice try Dylan, but it doesn’t quite work like tha...Nice try Dylan, but it doesn’t quite work like that especially when you only read with a right-wing eye.<BR/>Normally I wouldn’t waste my time to bother with nit-picking hair-splitting garbage such as this but I’ll make an exception just this once.<BR/>If I write something in single quotes ‘thus’, I am paraphrasing an idea that is derived usually from a collection of vague ideas. They may be from a series of articles or may be from an article and a video or whatever. I would then notate in the endnote/footnote what I considered the most appropriate of the paraphrased idea but which may not reflect the idea in its entirety. Usually that is done at the end of the sentence or even at the end of the paragraph if the paragraph in its entirety is relevant to the idea.<BR/>If, on the other hand, I write something in double quotes “thus”, I am then directly quoting verbatim and I would place the notation mark right at the end of the quote just after the closing double quote mark, and I’d do this even if the quote is just part of a sentence that is incomplete, since it maybe that I would wish to use other quotes or references within that same sentence.<BR/>Picky I know, but as you get stuck in to your own PhD you’ll soon figure out how important these little differences can be.<BR/>In this particular case to say ‘nuked (as against ‘bombed’) back in to the stone age’ is not an unreasonable assumption. First, Pakistan is a huge nation and using conventional weapons would not put Pakistan back into the stone age. Secondly, Pakistan is itself a nuclear armed nation. If the US went off half cocked with conventional weapons in an attempt to bomb Pakistan back to the stone age it would leave itself open to a retaliatory nuclear strike from Pakistan. Of course that would then be the end of Pakistan but then by the time it has got to that stage everyone has moved beyond the point of no return anyway. <BR/>I stand by what I wrote and the way I presented it. If you don’t like then… tough!Damian Lataanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-1159273855750887072006-09-26T22:00:00.000+09:302006-09-26T22:00:00.000+09:30Damo, YOU made the claim and YOU backed it up with...Damo, YOU made the claim and YOU backed it up with a footnote that does not support your claim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-1159272174892997442006-09-26T21:32:00.000+09:302006-09-26T21:32:00.000+09:30Keep looking Dylan.Keep looking Dylan.Damian Lataanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-1159264946538129222006-09-26T19:32:00.000+09:302006-09-26T19:32:00.000+09:30My comment was in regards to the article you refer...My comment was in regards to the article you referenced in your post. The footnote seemed to imply that the article included this quote which, obviously, it doesn't.<BR/><BR/>I did a quick Google News search for the terms 'pakistan nuke stone age' and got only two results, one of which was from the 1st of September and before the story broke.<BR/><BR/>The same search for the terms 'pakistan bomb stone age' returned more than 1600 news reports.<BR/><BR/>I am sure there are places online where the word nuke was used but it certainly wasn't in the article your footnoted nor (in the context you describe) in any of the "4500 English language news sources" Google indexes each day.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps your research skills are better than mine - can you point to where in the article you footnoted it said 'nuke' or, failing that, a reputable source (a newspaper will do) where it claims this was the quote and not 'bomb'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-1159224652114280972006-09-26T08:20:00.000+09:302006-09-26T08:20:00.000+09:30There were a number of articles that used the word...There were a number of articles that used the word 'nuked' or 'nuke'. I'm sure with your research skills you'll have no trouble finding them.Damian Lataanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-1159194301676956812006-09-25T23:55:00.000+09:302006-09-25T23:55:00.000+09:30I couldn't find in the article where you got the w...I couldn't find in the article where you got the word 'nuke' from. Did you take it as implied from the 'stone age' reference?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com