You literally post the definition that says
"a group of words from a text or speech", and then go on to argue that it must be EVERY word from a text or speech.
An argument that you cannot substantiate in any way, AND that is contradicted by scholars and linguists the world over.
This is not sardonic, it is an actual question: Do you have some type of mental health issue that causes you to just fabricate shit in your head, and then declare it as proved fact?
"A direct quotation reproduces words verbatim from another work or from your own previously published work."
A direct quotation reproduces words verbatim from another work or from your own previously published work.
apastyle.apa.org
This does NOT say that you reproduce the ENTIRE other work in your quote. What ******* idiot would think that you have to copy and paste the entire play Othello, in order to have quoted verbatim from it?
For **** sake, they even give an example that uses a partial sentence quoted from the original work:
Effective teams can be difficult to describe because “high performance along one domain does not translate to high performance along another” (Ervin et al., 2018, p. 470).
Here is an example of how it is used in the legal world:
"The term verbatim refers to the act of quoting or citing text exactly as it appears in the original source."
Here are two examples of how
verbatim citations might be used:
- A lawyer quotes a witness's statement in a trial document: "I saw the defendant leave the scene at 10:00 PM."
- A researcher cites a legal statute in a paper: "According to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, every person who, under color of any statute..." (hypothetical example). https://legal-resources.uslegalforms.com/v/verbatim
Notice that the lawer doen't repeat the ENTIRE witness statement, but provides a VERBATIM quote of a relevant PORTION.
Here is an explantion on Grammarly:
"Use quotation marks to indicate a direct quote or passage copied verbatim from another source."
Quotation marks are a type of punctuation that sets words and passages apart from the rest of the text. Use quotation marks to quote a…
www.grammarly.com
Notice how it says PASSAGE copied VERBATIM.
passage - a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style
a way of exit or entrance : a road, path, channel, or course by which something passes; a corridor or lobby giving access to the different rooms or parts of a building or apartment; the action or process of passing from one place, condition, or stage to another… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
If "verbatim" means EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THE ORIGINAL like you claim, then HOW could a PASSAGE (PORTION of a written work) be VERBATIM?
Do you not see a pattern here? At all?
I'm genuinely flabbergasted by the amount of time and typing you put into showing us you do not understand the simplest concepts of the English language, and your unending argument that all the experts are wrong, but YOU are right.
Is it masochism, or do you get some weird thrill out of being pseudo-anonymous and making yourself look like you have an IQ of 75?