Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>>>   (And btw, quotes are not used for emphasis, but for the exact 
>>> opposite,
>>> ie. de-emphasis.)
>>
>> Yeah. Sometimes the posts are almost unreadable due to that.
>>
> Snort.. 

I'm serious.

> Oddly, I thought quotes where to quote things, which is kind of 
> the opposite of deemphasizing them. 

No. Quoting something deemphasizes it.

Mary says "You're a fool."

Does that mean you're a fool like it would if I said you're a fool? Does it 
sound like I'm agreeing with Mary?

When someone puts air-quotes around a statement, they're saying "Well, 
that's what *they* call it, but we all know they're wrong."

Quotes attribute to someone else a statement that the person quoting it 
isn't stating. Hence, if you're the one saying it, and you put quotes around 
it, you're attributing that word to someone else, but since you're not 
saying who, you're simply saying "I don't really mean this word the way I 
wrote it."

 > Seriously though, you really have
> that big of a problem with my style? 

Seriously, 500-word sentences sprinkled liberally with incorrect punctuation 
is, indeed, difficult to read and understand.

> What the hell did people do before 
> they had type facing, underlines, bold, etc.? :p

Proper grammar. >89

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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