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")?
Dennis
11:36am, EST, January 15th, 2002. Didn't you "read" about "it" in the Times? It was decided by the Single-Space/Double-Space Conference that occured at that time, which made it a "crime" to use double spaces following the "end" of a sentence. That had been decided within minutes, so to justify the multi-million dollar expense of the convention, they tackled the "difficult" problem of labelling the putting words in quotes which weren't actually "quoted." Next year they plan to tackle the "nouning" of verbs. ;-)
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