Comments on: More “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

By: laine393

laine393 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:31:32 +0000

you guys should check out passive agressive notes. highlighted, bold, italics, and misused quotes, all in one.

By: beffie

beffie — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:24:47 +0000

My husbands family insists on using them whenever writing out a card or note inside a card.
Example –
(on the outside of envelope) “JOE”
(inside)
Happy Birthday “Joe”!
Hope you have a “great” birthday. Don’t worry about
turning “40″! Eat some cake for me.
Love “Mom”

The date is also written on every piece of paper that exchanges hands.

I also knew a girl in school who would say
Quote-Unquote
nearly every time she spoke.

I think some are taking this to a whole new level. Chill out and enjoy life. Unless you are correcting an English paper I don’t think you should get your panties in a bunch over spelling, grammar or punctuation errors. Pointing out a mistake to someone and calling them stupid will probably get you an obscene gesture more often than a gracious thank you.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:20:00 +0000

Since when did puncuation become a reason to argue?

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:40:00 +0000

This has been an entirely fun read! Not to be anal, but a SCHOOL bus would know? Come on!

By: mor

mor — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:29:00 +0000

On most school buses around here (Long Island, NY) is a sign that says:

“We” Want You To Work For Us

You would think a SCHOOL bus would know how to use quotes!

By: Doris

Doris — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:23:56 +0000

I can handle misused quoation marks. I CANNOT handle misused apostrophes.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:24:35 +0000

The reason that the hyphen is not inserted between the “ly” adverb and the adjective is that it is not needed for clarity – that’s the main reason you’d add a hyphen between an adverb and an adjective, to make things clearer. It’s not wrong, strictly speaking, either way, because the meaning is still well preserved.

By: Rayzor

Rayzor — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:53:02 +0000

i dont no what all this fuss over “punctuation” is all-about. it seems to me that “proof-reading” a restaurants menu seems a little anal. Frankly, eye think “spelling” is a little over-rated, two.

By: fugly

fugly — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:09:26 +0000

Just let Tom be “right.”

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:16:00 +0000

I’m on the side of Betsy and Kent. It may be that way according to AP, but that’s just the standard they’ve adopted, nothing more.

I gave my Strunk & White to my daughter to take to college, so I can’t look it up, but the way I learned it says it should have the hyphen when used as a compound adjective.