I hate "quotes"

David Bergdahl einstein at FROGNET.NET
Sat Apr 27 16:38:01 UTC 2002


>Have the "rules" [quotes used to indicate irony] for quotation markes
changed?

Weren't these called "scare quotes" at one time?  Maybe they're an offshoot
of greengrocer's apostrophes!
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