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Why does the access violation error message put the operation in quotation marks? Is is some sort of euphemism?

April 3, 2014 Apr 3, 2014 04/3/14

Raymond Chen

When an application crashes with an access violation, the error message says something like The instruction at "XX" referenced memory at "YY". The memory could not be "read". Why is the operation in quotation marks? Is this some sort of euphemism? The odd phrasing is a consequence of globalization. The operation name is a verb in the ...