Monday, September 24, 2007
"Ice Cream"
It's "funny" because it's "true" -- the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks. Not to be confused with Apostrophe Abuse...
(You don't have any of this going on in your library's signage, right?)
(You don't have any of this going on in your library's signage, right?)
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Ah, the non-quotation quotation marks.
It's an "ancient" custom, I believe, going back to the early days of typewriters, when the only way to add emphasis was to underline, use ALL CAPS, or put the word in "quotes".
Unfortunately, the availability of more ways to add emphasis -- bold, italic, larger, or a combination has not "diminished" the unnecessary use of quotation marks.
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It's an "ancient" custom, I believe, going back to the early days of typewriters, when the only way to add emphasis was to underline, use ALL CAPS, or put the word in "quotes".
Unfortunately, the availability of more ways to add emphasis -- bold, italic, larger, or a combination has not "diminished" the unnecessary use of quotation marks.
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