On 06 Jul, 2004, at 09:07 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 05:52 PM 7/6/04 -0700, Mark D Lew wrote:(who thinks scare quotes are incorrect
I just heard the term "scare quotes" a few weeks ago for the first time,
when Andrew Stiller used it on O-List. When did the previous meaning
(approximately "I'm using your term but I don't really agree with the
usage") turn into a pejorative ("scare quotes")?
In fact...
From WordNet 2.0:
1. scare quote -- (the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology)
- Darcy
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