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Subject:Re: Misuse of 'quotes' From:Bill Swallow <swallow -at- USERTECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:08:27 -0400
This thread brings back fond memories of Chris Farley's news correspondent sketch on Saturday Night Live.
You can try making quote signs with your hands whenever emphasizing a word or topic when talking to your boss. That might make him stop, might not, but I definitely think if you do it enough you'll be sure to get SOME SORT of a response. (keep some running shoes handy if you take it too far) ;-)
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Usertech - Norwalk CT
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From: Mary McWilliams Johnson[SMTP:mary -at- SUPERCONNECT -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Misuse of 'quotes'
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.
>
>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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> cockpit, none of which followed the same principles --
> 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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