Unnecessary quotation marks
If you’re a grammar fanatic, or even just an everyday English-speaker, you’ll be both fascinated and amazed at
the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks. For example:
A submitter who prefers to remain anonymous sent me this. Talk about a front for the mob…
There’s also a fascinating Flickr group called “Quotation Mark” Abuse that’s well worth checking out. For those interested in the rules, quotation marks should be used to set off actual speech. The quotation mark can be further abused as a mark of irony, distancing the writer from the word or phrase contained. You can check out Wikipedia for more rules.
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on November 1st, 2007 at 2:54 pm
MIGUEL TORGA
THE PLOUGHMAN OF THE WRITING
A SHARED PATH
In the 1st centenary of his birth
A SMALL GREAT BOOK
BY CRISTÓVÃO DE AGUIAR