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Originally Posted by Nautingale
"lexuslover" you "should" really look "at" the overabundance "of" "quote" marks "you" "use." i believe "they" are not "quite" as "necessary" as you feel "them" to be. "just" saying." this is "not" an "insult" but merely an "observation." "  " |
Is "overabundance" a word?
Oh, I do "look" at my ""quote" marks"!
Writing 101:
http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com...otation-marks/
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#1: Quotation Marks Are for Quoting People—Verbatim
Perhaps it should go without saying, but quotation marks are for quoting people. Quoting doesn’t mean summarizing or paraphrasing; it means repeating exactly what someone said. If you put double quotes around a phrase, your reader will often assume that someone, somewhere, said that exact phrase or sentence. If you want to “sort of” quote somebody, but change a few words here and there, you need to get extra fancy with your punctuation: use brackets within the quotes to add in words or change verb tense; use ellipses to omit words; and use italics to highlight certain words in a quotation (but then use parentheses at the end to tell readers that you modified the quotation by italicizing it). Confusing enough? If you’re a bit rusty on these rules, you’re encouraged to refresh—and not directly quote anybody until you have.
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#8: Quotation Marks Are Good for Addressing Specific Words
If you’re writing a sentence where you talk about words, use quotation marks to clarify.
When I get really confused, I prefer to say that I was “bumfuzzled”; it’s so much more fun than saying I was “baffled.”
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Showing your petty, ignorance doesn't "insult" me at all.
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