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To: RosieCotton; Sam Cree
The ones that bug me are the people who use an apostrophe-s when they want to make a plural...
4,992 posted on 09/23/2005 6:50:33 PM PDT by Bear_in_RoseBear (I got mentioned on the Taglinus FreeRepublicus thread, and all I got was this lousy tagline)
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To: Bear_in_RoseBear

I don't think I've noticed the apostrophe one, but it's going to get me when I do.

My daughter and I noticed a particularly annoying use of punctuation that seems to be sweeping America: the use of quotation marks to emphasize truth, when they really imply skepticism.

For instance, we saw some product labeled "genuine" whatever it was, with the word genuine in quotations! To us, that implied the stuff was fake, but apparently the vendors thought the opposite.


5,003 posted on 09/23/2005 7:01:07 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality - Miami)
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