Please don't use quotation marks for emphasis

Outside The Beltway
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Again, incorrect.

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Well, if you know that it came from Chicago! you know it’s held to the highest morality, and highest standards!!! lol. :smirk:

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There must not be any emo symbols for “air quotes” to be used on twitter or Trump doesnt know how to use them.
So actual quotation marks may be his way of mocking or being ironic and mocking about being ironic or mocking
(This post is in “air quotes”, of course)

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“Maybe this is meant to be for only Conservatives on here?”

Maybe we should fall in line and be afraid to use “quotes” on here.

Even though it’s perfectly fine with the community guidelines, and TOS.
We wouldn’t want to be “Politically Democratically Incorrect”.

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“If” someone “in” “chicago” said it, then everyone knows “it’s” pure “accurate”, “a” “n” “d” definitely “not” tainted, in “any” way “Shape” or “f” orm. lol.

32

wrong

quotes are also used to set apart text

time to come off your lefty high horse of condescension

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33

Who was the guy here who used “thee” to mean “the”?

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“the” “CORRUPT” (LSD, not the drug, but even worse) “Liberal Socialist Democrat” Politicians, are trying to “ruin” America.

The simple question, is that “What” are Americans, and Trump going to do about it?

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How does one even end where you do.

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It is a bit late for me to bother to get my Fowler’s Modern English Usage or Oxford Style Guide tonight so I will give my interpretation and may get back with a more authoritative answer in the morn. The use of Double quotation marks can be used to indicate irony and the word(s) in the quotation marks should not be taken literally.

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I thought you were referring to pounds, shillings and pence when you mentioned LSD.

38

“being”
a
“recluse”
HELPS!

39

He should’ve checked with Weird Al to see if he was committing any Word Crimes, like using quotations for emphasis…

One thing I ask of you.
Time to learn your homophones is past due.
Learn to diagram a sentence too,
Always say, “to whom,”
Don’t ever say, “to who.”
And, listen up when I tell you this:
I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis!
You finished second grade,
I hope you can tell,
If you’re doing good or doing well!

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That may be the case if this discussion was taking place in the British Commonwealth, but it’s not. Oxford English does not have any literary authority in the USA.

42

Al “is”
a
bit
“Weird”.

43

Want emphasis? Use caps, or bold or some other font.

I have always taken quotes around a word or phrase to indicate that the reader should consider an additional meaning beyond the obvious one. (Unless the quotes are actually being used to quote someone or some other source, of course.)

44

Which is correct, when being used other than to quote someone.

But considering the sketchy grammar used routinely in this Forum, making an issue of the use of quote marks to show emphasis is a bit trivial. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I know that this all seems goofy. But it is important to think about.

Would you go to a Japanese restaurant that advertised their “fresh” sushi?

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Which is why when referring to Fox News it is essential to use “fair and balanced”.

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Of course. That is their copyrighted slogan, is it not?