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Wed 21 Aug, 2013 01:38 am
Does the "desire (to help others)" here refer to "the discipline of medical genetics"?
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A dozen years later I found myself deeply engaged in finding answers to questions 1 and 3. After a long and tortuous path through chemistry, physics, and medicine, I was finally encountering that inspiring field of human endeavor I had been longing to find!aoe that could combine my love of science and mathematics with a desire to help others -the discipline of medical genetics. At the same time, I had reached the conclusion that faith in God was much more compelling than the atheism I had previously embraced, and I was beginning for the first time in my life to perceive some of the eternal truths of the Bible.
One of the hyphens did not cut-and-paste correctly. The resulting glitch damaged the neighboring word as well.
Quote:A dozen years later I found myself deeply engaged in finding answers to questions 1 and 3. After a long and tortuous path through chemistry, physics, and medicine, I was finally encountering that inspiring field of human endeavor I had been longing to find -- one that could combine my love of science and mathematics with a desire to help others -- the discipline of medical genetics. At the same time, I had reached the conclusion that faith in God was much more compelling than the atheism I had previously embraced, and I was beginning for the first time in my life to perceive some of the eternal truths of the Bible.
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Sometimes the fancy versions of a text character will do that.
In this case it was the extra-long single dash: —
It would have copied OK if the author had used: --
I've also heard of it happening with the fancy version of quotes: “ ”
While there is no problem with the plain version of quotes: " "
If you see a jumble of characters like "
find!aoe" in a sentence, you should probably assume something didn't copy correctly, probably because of a fancy version of a dash or a quote.
that inspiring field of human endeavor I had been longing to find = discipline of medical genetics.
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