From scare quotes to orphan quotes

[Bob Haas]

When I was in journalism school at UNC, I learned the term orphan quotes,
which referred as I remember it, to those quote marks thrown in for
emphasis.  A little bit of spice, I suppose, and orphaned because the
material within came not from an actual quote.  I suppose that they are
free-floating quotes, which writers can reach up and pull from the air in
order to pepper their writing with emphasis and excitement.  Is anybody
familiar with the term?

bob

> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 19:54:00 +0800
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: On Campbells and camels (and scare quotes)
>
> As for those "fresh" quotes, I certainly do use "scare quotes" all
> the time, a term I first learned in philosophers' circles, but never
> for what I'd be happy to call "emphatic quotes".   Glad to see Jesse,
> Lynne, Arnold and others had the same take.