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	Misquotation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A misquotation is an accidental or intentional misrepresentation of a person's speech or writing, involving one or more of:
		Omission of important context : The context can be important for determining the overall argument the quoted person wanted to make, for seeing whether the quoted statement was restricted or even negated in this context, or for recognizing hints that it was meant as irony.
		In order to constitute a misquotation, the implied portions must alter the meaning of the quote in a way that the original author did not obviously intend.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Misquote (253 words)

	Nice Guys Finish Seventh: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Misquotation takes three basic forms: 1) putting the wrong words in the right mouth; 2) putting the right words in the wrong mouth; and, 3) Putting the wrong words in the wrong mouth.
		This is how misquotes get born and perpetuated: Someone -- ourself, say -- wants to make a point during a conversation, a speech, or in a piece of writing.
		We prefer the misquote, however, so that is the version which has stuck in the public mind.
	www.ralphkeyes.com /pages/books/niceguys/excerpt.htm (4418 words)

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		The criterion for deciding if quoted text is a misquotation is that the meaning of the quoted text is not the same as that of the original text.
		Some misquotations are accidental, but many require so much effort to construct that they are almost certainly deliberate falsifications.
		A particularly outrageous form of {misquotation by omission}, in which widely separated phrases or sentences are patched together.
	www.ediacara.org /jargon.html (8736 words)

	AHC Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These misquotation problems are usually discovered long after the patients were discharged – at the time the claims came back unpaid because the quoted benefits were not in fact available.
		When questioned about misquotations, most insurers try to shield themselves from payment liability by referring to the "quotations are no guarantee of payment" disclaimer that their representatives routinely read at the time of insurance verification.
		In the case of misquotation of benefits, the insurer is promising to provide the quoted benefits and the facility is detrimentally relying on that promise by admitting the patient and rendering treatment.
	www.ahcinc.com /pages/articles/articles_4.html (712 words)

	Quotations and Misquotations
		Many cases of misquotations by antievolutionists are so blatant and obvious when compared to the original that it is hard to imagine that the original quoter was not being intentionally dishonest.
		Some misquotations are the result of a bad translation of a manuscript originally written in a foreign language.
		Another way of misquotation is the result of the readers of the quoter and the readers of the quoted having different vocabularies, making different assumptions, and interpreting things in different ways.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/quotes (6443 words)

	The lies that led us into war
		The clearest example was the quotation and misquotation of the reports of United Nations weapons inspectors.
		That such a claim could appear in a purported intelligence document is a clear sign that the information was "pumped up" for political purposes, to support the case for an invasion.
		The Government began to resort to more direct misquotation in the immediate prelude to war, with UN chief inspector Hans Blix reporting on 7 March that Iraq was taking "numerous initiatives...
	www.ccmep.org /2003_articles/Iraq/060103_lies_that_led_us_into_war.htm (768 words)

	Quotations - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Good examples of this are Winston Churchill who gets many political quotes of uncertain origin given to him and Oscar Wilde who has said far more witty things then he has ever had the time for.
		Deliberate misquotation is very common either through the fact that a misquotation is much better known then the original or simply because the misquotation fits the situation better.
		Possibly worse then misquotation is inappropriate where an author's words are taken out of context and are used to support a position or idea that they would have never agreed with.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /quotations.htm (889 words)

	Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 501 U.S. 496 (1991)
		For a court to ask whether a misquotation substantially alters the meaning of spoken L words in a defamatory manner is a far different inquiry than whether reasonable jurors could find that the misquotation was different enough to be libelous.
		Third, the Court suggests that misquotations that do not materially L alter the meaning inflict no injury to reputation that is com pensable as defamation.
		This may be true, but this is a question of defamation or not, and has nothing to do with whether the author deliberately put within quotation marks and attributed to the speaker words that the author knew the speaker did not utter.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/89-1799.ZCD.html (1023 words)

	Quote Details: Hesketh Pearson: Misquotation is, in fact,... - The Quotations Page
		Quote Details: Hesketh Pearson: Misquotation is, in fact,...
		Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned.
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	www.quotationspage.com /quote/26764.html (93 words)

	Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 501 U.S. 496 (1991)
		For a court to ask whether a misquotation substantially alters the meaning of spoken words in a defamatory manner is a far different inquiry than whether reasonable jurors could find that the misquotation was different enough to be libelous.
		Third, the Court suggests that misquotations that do not materially alter the meaning inflict no injury to reputation that is com- pensable as defamation.
		In dealing with the intellectual gigolo passage, the Court of Appeals ruled that there was no malice but in the alternative went on to say that as a matter of law the erroneous attribution was not actionable defamation.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/89-1799.ZX.html (1046 words)

	Krugman Truth Squad: Don Luskin on Paul Krugman & Misquotes on NRO Financial
		The paper's vice president of corporate communications, Catherine Mathis, confirmed to me that op-ed columns are indeed not fact-checked, and that corrections are at the discretion of the author.
		A shameful misquotation in Krugman's column Tuesday shows the kind of evil mischief that can happen when a columnist goes virtually unsupervised.
		Of course the Norquist misquotation was never corrected in the Times, and the Nethercutt misquotation probably won't be either.
	www.nationalreview.com /nrof_luskin/truthsquad200311051325.asp (1272 words)

	The Survival of a Fitting Quotation
		Misquotations and misattributions like this are fairly common, and actually make up a significant portion of the canon of famous quotations.
		Some misquotations are so-called “improvements” made by authors who like the idea in a quotation, or the kernel of an idea, and so they sharpen up the wording to make it more useful or pithy.
		Throughout both sections I will also examine other spurious quotations or outright misquotations encountered along the way as it seems authors who use one misquotation are likely to use others.
	www.geocities.com /fitquotation (1838 words)

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		In Mason, there was much less excuse for misquotation since the defendant author was not on deadline and spent many hours interviewing the plaintiff on tape.
		If we assume that libel cases may often involve libelous misquotation, the key question for further libel cases is now whether such misquotation is materially different than the original.
		Most of the misquotation in Mason clearly meets this test save for one which the Court calls “Sex, Women, Fun.” According to his taped conversation, Masson hoped to occupy Anna Freud’s house after her death.
	www.jamesgoodale.net /images/80.doc (1031 words)

	The Korea Times : Embassy Blames Indian Media for Misquotation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Indian Embassy in Seoul clarified on Friday The Korea Times did not misquote comments on the nuclear status of India and North Korea made by External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh in an interview Tuesday, but it claimed some Indian news media had reproduced and distorted parts of the published remarks.
		``The misquotation was by Indian news media and not The Korea Times,¡¯¡¯ a diplomat at the embassy said, requesting not to be named.
		The BJP was defeated in the May polls this year by the Congress party, which conducted India's first nuclear test in 1974 when Indira Gandhi was prime minister.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/200412/kt2004121716384110230.htm (486 words)

	Misquotation led to trouble - The Daily Free Press - Opinion
		Imagine my disappointment when I noticed that I had been misquoted in the story, and my names (both first, and last) had been misspelled.
		The misquote in the Free Press ignited a spark with BU's Director of Housing who was concerned, with reason, when he read in the Free Press that a room in 1019 had unscrewed the door from its hinges!
		Indeed, our room is a social one, and we do keep our door open at all times when we are home, but the door was not unscrewed from its hinges.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /news/2004/04/06/Opinion/Misquotation.Led.To.Trouble-652465.shtml (495 words)

	Special Docket No. 3103 - Application of Star Shipping A/S (d.b.a. Atlanticargo) for the benefit of Lynden International
		He found that section 8(e) of the 1984 Act does not authorize relief from the misquotation of a rate where there has been no error in the tariff itself.
		He further found that the tariff clerk simply quoted the wrong rate and when the error was discovered the carrier established the quoted rate in its tariff.
		In the instant case, he finds the error was one of misreading the tariff and misquoting the rate and there was never an intent to file a different rate.
	www.fmc.gov /Dockets/sd3103.htm (1002 words)

	NT Gateway Weblog
		The alleged quotation is from the Diane Sawyer ABC interview of February 16.
		The Globe and Mail reproduce what I imagine is the original Tikkun Mail version; The Metrowest Daily News has the fuller version and so on.
		One of things that is troubling about Michael Lerner's piece is that in encouraging as many as possible to reproduce his piece, he has made a damaging misquotation far more prevalent than what was actually said.
	www.ntgateway.com /weblog/2004/04/michael-lerner-on-passion.html (590 words)

	Misquotation - Result for Misquotation - Meaning of Misquotation - Definition of Misquotation - Dictionary of Meaning - ...
		Misquotation - Result for Misquotation - Meaning of Misquotation - Definition of Misquotation - Dictionary of Meaning - www.mauspfeil.net
		The following causes are mostly responsible for misquotations: * '''Imperfect reproduction''', e.g.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Misquotation.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Misquotation.html (245 words)

	ambivalent: irregular frequent movements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Imagine if we hooked up someone like Freud, or Shakespeare, in this sort of way; the rate of misapplication of psychoanalytic theory, or misquotation of plays and sonnets must be so high that the major problem would in fact be keeping the axle well-oiled in order to prevent friction-induced fires.
		And if people turned out to be too accurate in their memories of various famous people's speeches or ideas, this could easily be put right by the issue of bastardised history books that deliberately misquoted the greats.
		As misquotation bred further misquotation, so would the world's energy problem evaporate.
	celiasun.20six.co.uk /weblogCategory/1t36j8679l7p2?d=16.6.2005 (400 words)

	QUOTATION :: FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Good examples of this are Winston Churchill who gets many political quotations of uncertain origin given to him and Oscar Wilde who has said far more witty things then he has ever had the time for.
		Deliberate misquotation is very common either through the fact that a misquotation is much better known than the original or simply because the misquotation fits the situation better.
		Possibly worse than misquotation is inappropriate quotation, where an author's words are taken out of context and are used to support a position or idea that the author would never have agreed with and was not the author's intention.
	www.iraqthevote.com /index.php?s=quotation (932 words)

	Saturday Evening Post: Say it again, Sam - history's misquoted words and phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dreaded Misquotation Police won't knock on your door at midnight demanding your firstborn, your silverware, and all those towels you've borrowed from motels over the years.
		Although not a misquotation, a portion of one of Longfellow's most famous poems is oft-misunderstood.
		We continually misunderstand and misquote each other, borrow someone else's words or phrases, incorrectly attribute someone, and sometimes even unintentionally plagiarize to get a point or idea across.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n4_v262/ai_8438990 (1343 words)

	Krugman Truth Squad: Donald Luskin on Gail Collins, Dan Okrent & Rowbacks on NRO Financial
		And, most important, think how much less powerful their rhetoric will be when it can no longer rely of errors which, to be blunt, are frequently not "errors" at all — but rather deliberate distortions, misquotations, and downright lies.
		And it's a misquotation of the Vice President of the United States.
		So far, there's been no correction, and the misquotation was even repeated last Thursday in a Times news story by Elizabeth Bumiller.
	www.nationalreview.com /nrof_luskin/truthsquad200403300828.asp (1443 words)

	Novak admitted his misquote of Dean, but Limbau ... [Media Matters for America] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While syndicated columnist and CNN host Robert Novak has corrected his earlier misquotation of Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, originally identified by Media Matters for America, syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, who played an audio clip of Novak's misquotation on his show, has yet to issue a correction to his listeners.
		During the March 1 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, Limbaugh aired Novak's misquote, in which Novak falsely claimed that during an appearance at Cornell University, Dean said that Social Security is "going to lose about 80 percent of the benefits" over time.
		On the morning of March 1, the Republican National Committee posted Novak's misquotation of Dean on its official website (it has since been removed).
	mediamatters.org /items/200503070005 (503 words)

	Re: Clarification on misquotation of figure from OSI Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		> > Unfortunately, the Guide has been misquoted to the effect that the > authors estimate the cost of a published journal article at $3,750.
		As the Guide text makes abundantly clear, the > table containing this number serves only to illustrate a simple method > by which such fees may be determined, and all the figures used in the > illustration are identified as hypothetical.
		None of the numbers in the illustration are represented to be > industry averages, nor can they reasonably be mistaken as such.
	www.library.yale.edu /~llicense/ListArchives/0403/msg00064.html (390 words)

	Almost, at times, the Fool.: oh. I'm the asshole.
		Once my brain registers that we are about to diagram one of the most notorious misquotations of all time, it decides there's no time for thought - only action!
		I kind of think that if you are already making the effort to spell "Yorick" correctly, you should extend that effort to not muffing the entire quotation.
		Similarly, the misquotation is a thorn in the collective side of Shakespeare aficionados because the point, really, is that Hamlet didn't know Yorick all that well.
	almostridiculous.blogspot.com /2005/03/oh-im-asshole.html (538 words)

	James Madison Quotations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This misquotation is floating around the Christian Religious Right and the conservative talk shows.
		It is part of an attempt to promote the (false) notion that the United States has always been a Christian nation and that Founding Fathers of the United States were all pious Christians.
		The clue here is that the citation refers to Madison's "Memorial and Remonstrance," a document that strongly supports the separation of State and church.
	www.mvm-hands.com /madison.htm (1824 words)

	Comments for: Yamhill confirmation a misquotation - ja.zz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Last week, a number of articles quoted an Intel public relations officer who claimed that the company has been working on a 64-bit x86 processor that they could bring to market if consumers demand it.
		Now, Xbit Labs has a statement from Intel claiming that the PR officer was misquoted:
		When asked for clarification, an Intel’s spokespersons said: “the Intel PR person was misquoted...
	techreport.com /ja.zz?id=33527 (229 words)

	Tornado Insider - News - Masterminds of the Universe
		For those who don’t know, the line is a misquotation attributed to Canadian ice hockey star Wayne Gretzky, known as the "The Great One" in North America.
		The misquotation was supplied by Cupidi, of Italian incubator Cirlab.
		Keeping Cupidi company on the Masterminds Panel were Carol Dukes of Thinknatural.com, Logitech founder Daniel Borel, Ulf Jonstromer of Swedish investment firm Brainheart, and moderator Coleen Kaiser of Merrill Lynch.
	www.tornado-insider.com /news/Article.asp?id=2045 (507 words)

	Iran News - Iranian official blames misquotation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LONDON, Jan 18 (IranMania) - Secretary of Supreme National Security Council's Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Mousavian said on Monday the remarks attributed to him in an interview published in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine were untrue.
		He told ISNA that he had been totally misquoted.
		The German newspaper quoted Mousavian as saying Iran is ready to give further assurances to the Europeans and the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding its nuclear activities withing the framework of commitments within the nonproliferation treaty's additional protocol.
	www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=28850&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs (424 words)

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