At 04:16 PM 12/9/03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: >I am "tired" of all of the "unnecessary" quotation marks that people >seem to "need" to put around various "words" and "phrases." My >"weariness" at seeing so many "extra" quotation marks grows from an >increasing "conviction" that they are merely a "substitute" for "good >writing," by people who don't "know" how to indicate "emphasis" on >certain "words or phrases." > >Nothing to do with this "list," just something I had to "share."
Like the sign by the guard's station at the main entrance at one place I once worked which read <quote> THE "WELL DRESSED PERSON" WEARS A BADGE </quote> which used to drive all of us who were tasked with writing the documentation nuts whenever we had to go to the main building (we worked in another building, where there was not only no such sign but no security guard by the door) . . . Badges? We Don't Need No Steenking Badges Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
