Timeline for Why is the word “so” in the line, “To a ill-informed person I would have so answer yes,” shown in Italic to stress the word?
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| Jul 15, 2014 at 20:24 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Jul 15, 2014 at 14:21 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @AndrewLeach - "One should not really answer in comments." Done all the time, esp. in instances like this. "Don't vote on an answer based on what you think of the question." I don't. I know some do, but I don't subscribe to that idea. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 14:13 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @KristinaLopez - I agree with you; I thought the error was in answer(ed) which makes sense, although "so answered" should refer to a prior (not following) answer. But my initial search was for a typo in answer. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 14:10 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @YoichiOishi - I don't know who your downvoter was, but everybody has them. When something makes no sense whatsoever (as typos are wont to do), you can google it by searching a half-dozen words in quotes (I googled "answer yes, but not with any intelligent voter") which appear before or after the mystery word. That is how I found it, and probably a couple of other users did so as well. Cultures are indeed different, but one thing remains constant: where humans are involved, mistakes will be made. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 14:09 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | Until it was determined to be a typo, I thought it was an affected voice of an emphatic young person saying, "I would have so answer(ed) yes.", which is a viable possibility to me who is not familiar with the background of the character speaking the line. I think the downvote is patently unfair in this case. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 9:38 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | Cont. a typo as a matter of course as the down-voter takes it for granted. I think it the basic cultural difference from the world the down-voter resides in. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 9:35 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Andrew Leach. I read it as "I would have to answer yes,” as I wrote in my question, but the word, "so" is shown in Italic. Hence, I thought there should be a special reason for the author to have used "so." Though somebody down-voted my question perhaps for the reason of "too obvious" typo, non-native English speakers like me can not judge and declair it's a typo with confidence that the down-voter has. And in Japan, we would require 100 years to discover a typo in the book written by reputed authors and published by reputed publishers. Typo in public literatures is a shame. We never accept | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 9:16 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @medica If an answer/comment/response brings in something valuable, reasonable, and (English) language related, like the reason a link isn't posted, and/or how an error may have evolved (cf tracing elliptical expressions), I'll not invoke the 'isn't a real answer' complaint. I'd not go as far as John Lawler when he says 'There's no difference between 'answers' and 'comments', but I've occasionally used an 'answer' where I'd have wished to use a 'comment' as per regs, but felt the rudimentary formatting available would lead to a lack of clarity. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 8:40 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | One should not really answer in comments. Answers should go in the Your Answer box. If you don't think the question is worthy of an answer, vote to close (if there's a valid close reason). If you don't think the answer is useful, vote down. If it is useful, vote up. Don't vote on an answer based on what you think of the question. | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 8:38 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @EdwinAshworth - here we disagree. This is a typo does not need to be formatted. ') | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 8:34 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @medica Indeed. If only comments could use the same formatting :-) | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 7:46 | comment | added | mplungjan | Interestingly enough, the "yes" is spelled "yts" in the PDF available on the net. Seems someone scanned and OCRed it | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 7:34 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | Maybe better a comment? | |
| Jul 15, 2014 at 7:31 | history | answered | Andrew Leach♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |