All Winter Clothing on "Sale"
Is it not really on sale? Is someone saying "sale" and not the rest of it?
As a former English major, I thoroughly enjoyed this Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks.
Check it out!
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
Does it drive you crazy when people insist on putting quotation marks around a seemingly random word in a sentence or phrase? Have you ever seen a sign in a store saying something like this?
Is it not really on sale? Is someone saying "sale" and not the rest of it?
As a former English major, I thoroughly enjoyed this Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks.
Check it out!
Is it not really on sale? Is someone saying "sale" and not the rest of it?
As a former English major, I thoroughly enjoyed this Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks.
Check it out!
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uh-oh, I do this. I do it when I'm using the word to be something not everyone would understand. As in, I "know" the answers. By that I mean, intuitively, not learned or educated. Another one is, it "came" to me. Meaning it didn't physically come to me, it came to me in meditation or deep thought. So, does that bug you too? I bet it does. Smiles!
ReplyDeleteHmmm...somehow I think those examples are a bit closer to the "proper" use of quotation marks. ;)
ReplyDeleteWell, I hope you don't get too annoyed by my sometimes poor spelling!
ReplyDeleteoh no, you're fine. :-) It's the ones that average about 3 incorrect spellings per sentence that get me.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm usually ont *that* bad, LOL!
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