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Re: Double Quotation Marks to Single Quotation Marks - Relaxing t he Standard?
Subject:Re: Double Quotation Marks to Single Quotation Marks - Relaxing t he Standard? From:peter -at- softwell -dot- co -dot- uk To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:52:01 +0000
I would never be sarcastic (or ironic) in technical writing, especially for an international audience.
I don't think I've ever used double quotes in 25 years of technical writing, except where they are part of code. These days
there are plenty of ways to emplasise a piece of text - font, bold, italic, colour.
Peter
>I use them when being "sarcastic." And I use double quotes. Should I,
>for the U.K., be doing this?
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