The Old New Thing

Punctuation is becoming increasingly decorative and less functional

September 24, 2013 Sep 24, 2013 09/24/13

Raymond Chen

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks calls out abuse of the quotation mark. For some reason, quotation marks are being increasingly used as a form of emphasis (a usage which remains controversial), by people unaware that such use, when interpreted as scare quotes, serves to undermine their original point. Mind you, the emphasis ...