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SayHello Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

A tag for a kind of copy-and-paste

hi,

I want to copy an article written by someone else from one forum A to another forum B.
In the forum B, I shall use a tag (or a prefix), which will be put in front of the title of the article, to indicate that the article is not written by me, the post's owner who just pasted it here.
What word shall I use for the tag? Thanks.
  

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Hello, sayHello - and welcome to English Forums. Use this: 'Originally posted by [name] at '

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  • Use this: 'Originally posted by [name] at '
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Hello, sayHello - and welcome to English Forums.

Use this: 'Originally posted by [name] at '
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Thank you for your help. Your method is very useful. If there was a tag it would be more convenient.[A]
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Maybe, I didn't describe my question clear enough.

For example,

I started a new thread and pasted an article, written by others, from somewhere else in the first post. The first post only contains the content of the article and there is no my own words. The article's title will also be a part of the thread title as below,
Thread Title:
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something like this?
\[quote\]something like this?\[/quote\]
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hitchhiker
something like this?
something like this?
thanks for reply

not code.
I need a tag or prefix for a title.
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For example,
In forum B, there are many articles. some of them are originally posted by members of forum B and the others are from somewhere else. Most of the time, originally posted articles are more tempting than other ones. Some of the members have less interest in the articles from other places. They don't want to look into a thread which will make them dispointed. If there is a tag in th

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