UN-words

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, sagehen wrote:

#On the face of it, quote/unquote looks to be functionally equivalent to
#do/undo:  doesn't sound like a noun to me.

Quote/unquote are metawords. They don't operate within the grammar of
the sentence, but ON it. You can insert them anywhere at all, as long as
you keep them balanced, because a quotation can begin or end anywhere at
all.

-- Mark A. Mandel