When quoting one another, writes have, what appears to be honest yet annoying, tradition of copying a quote as it is.
This sounds like the virtuous approach to take, until the readers start encountering those, out of place, square brackets.
[T]he dog was following it’s [sic] ball, as if their [sic] inseparable.
Look at that
- The first letter of the sentence was not capitalized, but I am too honest to capitalize it with signaling what I have just done by using square brackets around it.
