"greengrocer's apostrophe" (was Re: Cam(pb)ell)

[Gregory {Greg} Downing]

At 10:42 AM 8/4/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>The purely emphatic use of quotes, as in Steve's "'fresh' produce!",
>is different, and AFAIK does not have a name.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>

While we're at it, why not simply "emphatic quotes"? Generalized emphasis
certainly seems to be the common factor in this kind of usage of quotation
marks.


Greg Downing, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu