"Air quotes"?

Dan Parvaz dparvaz at UNM.EDU
Wed May 14 17:33:06 UTC 2003


>My understanding of the sign (which I gloss as QUOTE) is that one of
>its major uses is to identify non-standard or novel use of signs.

Thanks for bringing that usage up, Scott. Where QUOTE is a good gloss, a
freer translation might be something like "... so to speak."

Is your new book going to be on any of the vendor tables at ICLC 2003?

Cheers,

Dan

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PhD student, University of New Mexico
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