Stephen King, 'It' (1988) said:“Shut up, candy-ass,” Machen said. “Get out of here.” [...] “About the bum-punchers I’m neutral,” Machen said.That was one of the most open minded characters of 1988.
See those things that look like two apostrophes tacked together at the start of the sentence, then again at then end ? Also, see that [1] thing at the end of the line ? Click on it, then click on the link it takes you to.Alsohttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/profanity (which leads to) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/profane
hmm correct, but that wording of the sentence is still weird for a research article. Corrected on the post above.
It looks weird because due to wikipedia's standard practice (guideline?) of avoiding to adress the reader ('you') outside of literal quotations (like that one). If it was paraphrased and written in third person it'd look fine.