# Problem with incorrect quoting

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**Created:** [March 28, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-incorrect-quoting/938905 "2021-03-28T14:37:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-with-incorrect-quoting/938905/3 "2021-03-31T06:39:29Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> It just happened to me. In the [Grammar - ‘may’ or ‘might’](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-may-or-might/938875) thread, I tried to respond to an older post from DPRK. I hit Reply and did not try to quote any of the post. The reply box somehow contained a quote from Thudlow\_Boink, who was the last poster at the time. I decided not to post but start this thread.

Which reply did you hit? Was it the one at the bottom right corner of the last post? That’s a reply to that post. If you somehow also hit the quote bubble at the top left of the editor, that would contain the last poster’s quote which would explain why **Thudlow\_Boink** ’s quote would be in the post.

If you hit the reply at the bottom of the thread next to the flag button, that might be more puzzling.

> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> (Just as weird, DPRK’s post quoted my post, even though theirs shows as post #6 and mine as post #7.)

That’s easily explained, I think. You and **DPRK** posted at the exact same minute based on the time stamps. **DPRK** saw your post within the 5 minute edit window and added your quote to their post and added an ETA to show that it was edited.

> [@Grammar - 'may' or 'might'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammar-may-or-might/938875/6):
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> I do not believe that are always precisely interchangeable. (Also considering ‘might’ as the past, possibly subjunctive, tense of ‘may’.) It also depends on precisely what is meant: it is possible that they be giants? It is possible that they are giants? They would be giants, if not for…? ETA it is a complete sentence, but what can it mean?

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