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[elizabear]

I used to love a web site called The Gallery of "Misused" Quoatation Marks. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in years. But there's a new source for spotting and sharing your most entertaining and/or painful sightings.

http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/




[Is there someone with a paid account willing to do an LJ feed?]

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[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

I remember encountering difficulty linguistically in the Midwest, because I was used to unexpected or superfluous quotation marks denoting sarcasm, and apparently in Iowa (where I lived, at least) they are used to denote emphasis.

So, for instance, when a co-worker put up a sign reading Such-And Such Is "Very" Important, my instinct was to think it was in fact not important at all, rather than extremely important.

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

Oy! What happened to simply underlining?