I have noticed in several posts site spelled cite, is this a kewl message board thing or what? All message boards or just this one? Since when?
And why wasn’t I, being a cool person, informed of this change;)?
If the names of Rap groups and their popular albums are any indication, poor spelling is indeed considered clever by the very young.
jimshep, I suspect you are confusing cite as in “To quote as an authority or example.” or “To mention or bring forward as support, illustration, or proof”
with
site, as in “The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.”
… or web address!!
Cite and site are two different words.
“Cite” is short for “citation,” meaning "evidence to support your point. In books, cites take the form of footnotes/endnotes. On this board, cites can be in the form of footnotes, but they also commonly take the form of a link to another web page.
“Site” means “place,” like a construction site. As you know, a web site is a place on the web–a web page.
So if Poster X wants more evidence for what Poster Y is saying, X may ask Y for a cite, or a web site that will serve as a cite.
When people say “web cite,” I don’t know if they are asking for a cite that can be found on the web or if they are simply making a mistake or typo.
So it’s not kewl board-speak. It’s either a request for a specific type of cite or it is a spelling error.
Now that I think about it, I usually see cite used as ‘cite a refrence’ but since the refrence is usually a web site it led to my confusion. Thanks for preventing me from looking like an idiot (again).