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Quid Pro Quotation Marks And 2 More Specialty Quotation Marks

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Fascinations

From Broomcorn to Supplemental Punctuation Marks
In the course of composing A Farrago On Brooms, Broomcorn, and Broom Dusting two days ago, DrHGuy checked the link referencing that post’s inspiration at Celebrate Your Inner Fabiola!.
That took him to the appropriate site, and, since he was already in the neighborhood, he indulged himself with a casual perusal [...]

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Quotation Marks Enhancements – Misquotation Marks & Quasi-Quotation Punctuation

September 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Fascinations

The Problem – Quotation Punctuation Inadequacy
In composing yesterday’s post, Quasi-Quotation Quarantine, I became aware of an annoying and troublesome lack of appropriate punctuation for certain subcategories of quotations. Even excluding the case of unintentional misquotes, given that one can hardly be expected to use punctuation indicating an incorrect quotation if one doesn’t know the quotation [...]

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