Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Quotation marks, "Unnecessary"
Forget what you learned in your "grammar" classes... a good librarian will sprinkle quotation marks liberally throughout his or her written and electronic correspondence to give certain words more "emphasis." You can also do this with your verbal communications, though beware of people who may mistake your emphatic gesture for sarcastic "dick fingers."
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What "exactly" do you mean? How else will we let people "know" that we are being, you know, "ironic," or "sarcastic," or really just trying to empaasize our "point?" Sounds like the complaint of a "cataloger" to me.
My favorite one, posted in the lodge of a state park: Beware, raccoons may have "rabies."
Ha! I'm new here, but my favorite is along the lines of:
Have a Donut! "FREE"
I stopped the "air quotes" once I saw McCain doing them.
Printed "air quotes" are, however, a whole nother "animal."
I "love" the unecesasary quotes blog. Thanks.
On a related note, I hope you all get most of these topics from user suggestions, because if not, ya'll work in the most disfunctional library of all time. And that would be saying something.
Has anyone "seen" this one at Fail Blog? (Well, you have now!) http://failblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/11/fail-owned-quotation-marks-correction-sign-fail.jpg
As one Fail Blog commenter noted, it would have been funnier if the second sign had been stapled to the board. tee-hee!
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