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Subject:Misuse of 'quotes' From:Rev Simon Rumble <simon -at- RUMBLE -dot- WARATAH -dot- ID -dot- AU> Date:Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:32:52 +0959
Our Marketing Director has obviously been reading the output of too many
signwriters. He seems to put quotes around "everything" in all his
sentences.
Does anyone have a diplomatic way of explaining to him why what he's doing
is "wrong"? It's "really" annoying me :)
PLUR
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be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the
cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples --
but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
Useful feature, that."
-- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990.
