(no subject)
Dear journal author:
1) I know that authors back in the 50s and 60s tended to use phrases like "man's inhumanity to man". Some of these authors were even radical social theorists.
2) I realize that that sort of phrase is no longer as permissible today. Even if most people are willing to supply the missing "hu-", it does betray a certain myopic and/or provincial view of gender--a view that's (often insightfully and rightly) criticized by radical social theorists.
3) That doesn't mean that you have to insert a [sic] whenever you quote an older text. Even if you're a radical social theorist. I understand what you're trying to get at, but it only makes you look pedantic, and leaves me reading and rereading each quotation looking for the misspelled word or absent bit of punctuation.
1) I know that authors back in the 50s and 60s tended to use phrases like "man's inhumanity to man". Some of these authors were even radical social theorists.
2) I realize that that sort of phrase is no longer as permissible today. Even if most people are willing to supply the missing "hu-", it does betray a certain myopic and/or provincial view of gender--a view that's (often insightfully and rightly) criticized by radical social theorists.
3) That doesn't mean that you have to insert a [sic] whenever you quote an older text. Even if you're a radical social theorist. I understand what you're trying to get at, but it only makes you look pedantic, and leaves me reading and rereading each quotation looking for the misspelled word or absent bit of punctuation.