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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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I think I'm about to turn in.

Wanna put in a DVD tho...

Something naughty...

Team America -or-
Top Secret -or-
Better Than Sex...

SPBLU is overdone around here lately :)

5,005 posted on 09/23/2005 7:04:15 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Don't get Stuck on Stupid="DGSOS"= phrase that pays for the 21st Century)
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To: Sam Cree
the use of quotation marks to emphasize truth, when they really imply skepticism.

I would find that annoying too, not to mention confusing.

The apostrophe-s mistake happens with common nouns... for instance, instead of typing "the dogs" when they mean more than one dog, the person will type "the dog's"... which always makes me want to ask, "The dog's what?" since apostrophe-s is the possessive form...

5,008 posted on 09/23/2005 7:07:36 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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