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@GalacticGoddess

Even Weird Al knows quotation marks are not for emphasis ... 🤦

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#QuotationMarks #emphasis #WeirdAl #punctuation #WordCrimes

@GalacticGoddess

Even Weird Al knows quotation marks are not for emphasis ... 🤦

😜

#QuotationMarks #emphasis #WeirdAl #punctuation #WordCrimes

Seriously #BBC ?
So '30 Palestinan schoolchildren killed ' needs quotation marks. But 9 killed Israelis don't? Are those Palestinans less real, or less trustworthy than the Israeli? #quotationmarks

Question: Has the use of quotation marks for dialogue in fiction fallen out of favour, or has this always been a thing and haven't I picked up on it before?

I'm now reading the third book in a row (currently The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, before that The Promise by Damon Galgut and No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy) and all three don't have dialogue marks.

Is this a stylistic choice on the author's part? Is this to make the pages seem calmer? Is this to save ink on pages? And is this really a new thing or haven't I just woken up to it before?

#bookstodon #quotationmarks @bookstodon #reading

Question: Has the use of quotation marks for dialogue in fiction fallen out of favour, or has this always been a thing and haven't I picked up on it before?

I'm now reading the third book in a row (currently The Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, before that The Promise by Damon Galgut and No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy) and all three don't have dialogue marks.

Is this a stylistic choice on the author's part? Is this to make the pages seem calmer? Is this to save ink on pages? And is this really a new thing or haven't I just woken up to it before?

#bookstodon #quotationmarks @bookstodon #reading

I don't care what the elites say, I think that items in quotation marks that aren't indicating speech by another person should have the punctuation outside the quotes.

Take this for "example".

This is a petty hill I will die on. Suck it, linguistic cabal.

#language #punctuation #elites #cabal #quote #quotationmarks #grammar

I don't care what the elites say, I think that items in quotation marks that aren't indicating speech by another person should have the punctuation outside the quotes.

Take this for "example".

This is a petty hill I will die on. Suck it, linguistic cabal.

#language #punctuation #elites #cabal #quote #quotationmarks #grammar

The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes, not to call out words being discussed.

#12DaysOfPunctuation #GiftsForWriters #NaNoWriMo #AmEditing #Punctuation #QuotationMarks https://www.amazon.com/Best-Punctuation-Book-Period-Businessperson/dp/1607744937/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OUGDFHF7ONAE&keywords=the+best+punctuation+book+period&qid=1669395264&sprefix=best+punctuat%2Caps%2C367&sr=8-1

The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes, not to call out words being discussed.

#12DaysOfPunctuation #GiftsForWriters #NaNoWriMo #AmEditing #Punctuation #QuotationMarks https://www.amazon.com/Best-Punctuation-Book-Period-Businessperson/dp/1607744937/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OUGDFHF7ONAE&keywords=the+best+punctuation+book+period&qid=1669395264&sprefix=best+punctuat%2Caps%2C367&sr=8-1

oh my god.

'#Commas and #Periods with #QuotationMarks': A History Lesson and Explanation of the Conflict between Countries [subhead my addition]
https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/10/20/commas-and-periods-with-quotation-marks/

#AmEditing #EditingCommunity #CMoS #ChicagoManualOfStyle

oh my god.

'#Commas and #Periods with #QuotationMarks': A History Lesson and Explanation of the Conflict between Countries [subhead my addition]
https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/10/20/commas-and-periods-with-quotation-marks/

#AmEditing #EditingCommunity #CMoS #ChicagoManualOfStyle

I got a new laptop when the "old" one pretended to break. The "new" keyboard will type "quotation marks" without me having to press a space key for them to show up and now I "can't" ("won't) stop myself from using them. #computers #quirks #keyboard #QuotationMarks

I got a new laptop when the "old" one pretended to break. The "new" keyboard will type "quotation marks" without me having to press a space key for them to show up and now I "can't" ("won't) stop myself from using them. #computers #quirks #keyboard #QuotationMarks