Timeline for What does adding quotes to an expression do to its meaning?
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| Jan 8, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Note that italics are impractical or impossible in many situations, and tradition from the typewriter era leaves you only with quotes, underlining, and ALL CAPS as options for emphasis. (And underlining is also impractical in many cases.) | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 10:17 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | @Kristina: Misusing quotes for emphasis is actually not seldom at all — and not only in English, I might add. This has been covered before on this site, see e.g. here and the related questions linked from there. | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 22:50 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Phil: Here's one: Be careful not to use quotation marks in an attempt to emphasize a word (the kind of thing you see in grocery store windows—Big "Sale" Today!). Underline or italicize that word instead. (The quotation marks will suggest to some people that you are using that word in a special or peculiar way and that you really mean something else—or that your sale is entirely bogus.) "OOPS!" | |
| Nov 27, 2013 at 15:38 | comment | added | Phil | I was thinking the same thing and was wondering if he was going to give a source, never heard it as emphasis. | |
| Nov 26, 2013 at 22:49 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | Sorry, but how do you know the writer meant the quotes as emphasis? I have not seen quotes used that way. | |
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| Nov 26, 2013 at 20:17 | history | answered | Erik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |