Shifting usage: "Who quoted this?"

[Charles C Doyle]

Still, any teacher of literature will have encountered student essays that say things like "With this quote Hamlet implies . . ." or even "Hamlet says this quote to imply . . . ."

--Charlie
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Poster:       Ben Zimmer

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Indeed. Amanda Katz, who edited the Globe Ideas column in question,
explained on Twitter that that's why it was phrased that way:

https://twitter.com/katzish/status/445650442509639680

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