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To: Xenalyte

Ooh, you naughty girl, you share my distaste for misuse of quotation marks!

Like signs with the word "Sale," in quotation-marks. Quoting whom? Or is it not really a sale?

And do you also share my dislike of the use of the word "quote" (a verb) when "quotation" ( a noun) is meant?

"Dan"


284 posted on 03/24/2005 8:05:16 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: BibChr

You quote someone. When you do, what you say is a quotation.

I am a HUGE stickler for things like that. What hangs in my window are curtains; they may drape, but they are not drapes.


299 posted on 03/24/2005 8:06:34 AM PST by Xenalyte (I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
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