http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2009/03/01/safe-syntax/ Random rants and curious explanation. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:29:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2009/03/01/safe-syntax/comment-page-1/#comment-2920 Al Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:17:35 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=269#comment-2920 ....and "President" Bush, which is how every newspaper in the country should have referred to him after he lost the election and then was appointed "president" by "Justice" Scalia. ….and “President” Bush, which is how every newspaper in the country should have referred to him after he lost the election and then was appointed “president” by “Justice” Scalia.

]]> http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2009/03/01/safe-syntax/comment-page-1/#comment-2919 Al Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:15:10 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=269#comment-2919 Come to think of it, there are legitimate uses for this vice; e.g. in speaking of Fox "News." Come to think of it, there are legitimate uses for this vice; e.g. in speaking of Fox “News.”

]]> http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2009/03/01/safe-syntax/comment-page-1/#comment-2905 Al Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:02:41 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=269#comment-2905 Russ Franke, a fine writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette back in the day, used to read quote-ridden copy aloud to the office crowd, turning all girlish and conspiratorial as he pronounced each word that was in quotes. Nobody who ever heard him do it would ever again commit such atrocities. Russ Franke, a fine writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette back in the day, used to read quote-ridden copy aloud to the office crowd, turning all girlish and conspiratorial as he pronounced each word that was in quotes. Nobody who ever heard him do it would ever again commit such atrocities.

]]> http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2009/03/01/safe-syntax/comment-page-1/#comment-2904 Mark Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:26:42 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/?p=269#comment-2904 It particularly irks me in public signs or in email. It implies the quoted text is meant facetiously ... or that the writer is quoting <i>another email</i>. It particularly irks me in public signs or in email. It implies the quoted text is meant facetiously … or that the writer is quoting another email.

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