Re: Misuse of 'quotes'

[Mary McWilliams Johnson <mary -at- SUPERCONNECT -dot- COM>]

There's probably no super-diplomatic way to let your marketing director know
that quotes are totally "unnecessary" and "wrong." You might ask him whom he
is quoting. Or you might tell him that putting something in quotes implies
that it's not really true - that it's a "pretend" truth - sort of
tongue-in-cheek.

I sympathize with your frustration. I get so tired of reading signs on
restaurants that boast of "home cookin'." !!!

Cordially,

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                                 Mary McWilliams Johnson
                               McJohnson Communications
                                  Documentation Specialist
                Web Site Design, Development and Graphics
                                  www.superconnect.com
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At 12:32 PM 6/4/98 +0959, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>Our Marketing Director has obviously been reading the output of too many
>signwriters.  He seems to put quotes around "everything" in all his
>sentences.
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>Does anyone have a diplomatic way of explaining to him why what he's doing
>is "wrong"?  It's "really" annoying me :)
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>PLUR
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>                  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.
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