Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

  By the way, could someone say how widespread the phenomenon of misusing
quotation marks for emphasis (instead of cursive or underlining) is? Is it
a phenomenon which only happens eg. in the US? I have never seen this in
Finland. When did this start happening?

  I really can't understand why they are using the quotation marks. What
would be wrong with cursive, or if the medium doesn't really support
cursive (or cursive would be too unnoticeable eg. in a hand-written plaque),
underlining? IMO underlining would be a much more noticeable way to denote
emphasis than quotation marks, even if the latter were somehow a valid way.

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                                                          - Warp

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