At 10:00 PM -0400 7/06/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 09:28 PM 7/6/04 -0400, you wrote:
> From WordNet 2.0:
> 1. scare quote -- (the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is
>not the authors preferred terminology)
There's also a good discussion from 2002 here, which suggests I may not be
the only one who never heard the term:
http://www.electriceditors.net/edline/vol7/7-15.txt
I particularly liked one correspondent's comment on verbal scare
quotes:
As for those
speakers who hold up wiggling fingers every third or
fourth word, I simply have them taken out and shot.
fourth word, I simply have them taken out and shot.
Tea all over my computer keyboard again!
I also enjoyed reading this cool commentary by the redoubtable John Lawler:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/quote.html
Very cool. But he needs to go back farther to find the originator
of the quote he attributes to Peter Schickele:
As Peter
Schickele says (about music), if it sounds good, it is
good.
Duke Ellington was known for saying this when Schickele was in
diapers, and I doubt Duke invented it.
Christopher
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