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To: Salamander

Why all the quotation marks? They don't add clarity, and they make the reader think that what's inside them isn't necessarily so.

In a context such as the above, quotation marks are the punctuation equivalent of putting "alleged" or "so-called" in front of the words inside them.


83 posted on 12/20/2005 12:16:05 PM PST by Xenalyte (Tom Cruise is in my closet and he won't come out.)
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To: Xenalyte

And that was the whole point.
That "she said" is frequently reason enough to disbelieve a child's revelation of abuse.

The post was sarcasm directed at the flippant "she said" crack.

Sometimes "she said" is the definitive evidence and not idle hearsay.

I've had 35 years of putting up with the "she said" crap and it's a very sore spot.


88 posted on 12/20/2005 12:52:00 PM PST by Salamander (Cursed With Second Sight)
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