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To: bad company

There is a reason that the apostrophes are straight. They had to serve as both left and right when making quotation marks.

You can't use curly apostrophes unless you have special ones for both left and right.


696 posted on 09/09/2004 1:50:17 PM PDT by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue
There is a reason that the apostrophes are straight. They had to serve as both left and right when making quotation marks.

You can't use curly apostrophes unless you have special ones for both left and right.

So the memo could not have been made with a typewriter.

718 posted on 09/09/2004 2:22:52 PM PDT by bad company ( You can live on your knees or die on your feet.)
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