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Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 17, 2006, 01:48:19 PM: [rant on]

What's with all the "overuse" of "quotation marks?"

Why do "we" ... "use them" when there "is no" ... "quote" to quote?

Is the "only" reason to show some sort of "emphasis?" Or might there be a "deep seeded" psychological or maybe "socialogical" reason we "wear out" the "quote key" of the "keyboard?"

It's getting "tiresome" to see all the "quotemarks"

[/rant off]
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 17, 2006, 01:56:56 PM: Would you rather see US do THIS instead?;)
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Airscrew on October 17, 2006, 01:58:52 PM: it because you cant see us doing the "finger thing" you know when you hold up your hands and wiggle two fingers Quote - Unquote.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Nilsen on October 17, 2006, 02:00:50 PM: Wtf are you on about. We dont do that nearly as much as we should.

Sounds like "someone" doesnt know what they are for.

mu... ha...ha.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 17, 2006, 02:12:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
Wtf are you on about. We dont do that nearly as much as we should.

Sounds like "someone" doesnt know what they are for.

mu... ha...ha.

Quote marks are for quotations.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: B@tfinkV on October 17, 2006, 02:15:10 PM: and message boards are for subjects worth discussing.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Stang on October 17, 2006, 02:16:51 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
Wtf are you on about. We dont do that nearly as much as we should.

Sounds like "someone" doesnt know what they are for.

mu... ha...ha.
:lol
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: cav58d on October 17, 2006, 02:20:57 PM: Because "this" is much easier than "this"
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Fishu on October 17, 2006, 03:11:50 PM: Yet we all understand perfectly why quotation marks are used when they're not supposed to. What's the problem?
We also understand not to misuse quotation marks in an official context.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: FiLtH on October 17, 2006, 03:20:13 PM: Well as far as the "quote marks" are concerned...and their "over-use", all I can say is it "high-lites" the subject being discussed, and other than "CAPS", I don't know any other way to do "it".
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: DREDIOCK on October 17, 2006, 03:23:42 PM: Dont change the way ya do it.
If ya do
Like a bad wife.
he'll just find someting else to complain about ;)
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Vulcan on October 17, 2006, 03:26:48 PM: Does someone need a "hug"?

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Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Tarmac on October 17, 2006, 03:31:53 PM: Back in the typewriter days, quotes could be used in much the same way italics are supposed to be (since you can't make italics on a standard typewriter). Now that we have word processors and italics are much easier to use it's unnecessary, but it still holds over.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Nilsen on October 17, 2006, 03:33:32 PM: lol.. nice "Vulcan"
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: MrBill on October 17, 2006, 04:20:18 PM: Well perhaps he would rather we do it like this[/COLOR][/b] :O

code is cool. :)
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: DiabloTX on October 17, 2006, 04:25:15 PM: "???????????????????????????????????????"
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: john9001 on October 17, 2006, 05:22:04 PM: what about this ?
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Holden McGroin on October 17, 2006, 05:30:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Vulcan
Does someone need a "hug"?

The Austin Powers joke is funny because Mike Meyers made fun of the "overuse" of "quote marks".

If I want to make emphasis there is another way to do it.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: JB88 on October 17, 2006, 05:31:48 PM: "whatever." said JB88.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: BlueJ1 on October 17, 2006, 05:39:17 PM: Quote
Originally posted by cav58d
Because "this" is much easier than "this"

Because "some" of us cant do that.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: J_A_B on October 17, 2006, 05:54:05 PM: Much worse than any overuse of quotations is the way the word 'like' pervades conversation to an alarming degree these days.

J_A_B
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Debonair on October 17, 2006, 06:13:06 PM: zOMG holden [SIZE=8]"[/SIZE][/I]his[SIZE=8]"[/SIZE][/I] groin is on teh magazine cover
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Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Octavius on October 17, 2006, 06:15:40 PM: That's right, Bennet Brauer here with another commentary. Didn't think the suits would have me back perhaps. Thought they'd have my dairy-air replaced by one of tem store mannequin well maybe I'm not "the norm". I'm not "camera friendly", I don't "wear clothes that fit me", I'm not a "heartbreaker", I haven't had "sex with a woman", I don't know "how that works", I don't "fall in line", I'm not "hygienic", I don't "wipe properly", I lack "style", I don't have "self-esteem", I have no "charisma", I don't "own a toothbrush", I don't "let my scabs heal", I can't "reach all the parts of my body", when I sleep I sweat profusely. But I guess the powers that be will keep signing my pay check until Jack and Jane K. Viewer start to go for the remote so they can get back to commentators who don't "frighten children", who don't "eat their own dandruff", who don't "pop their whiteheads with a compass they used in high school". Thank you, Kevin.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/52_1161127016_bennettbrauer2.jpg)
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: lukster on October 17, 2006, 06:20:15 PM: I don't use them solely to emphasize but do use them to emphasize a word or phrase that was made by another, which is proper usage.
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: FUNKED1 on October 17, 2006, 06:47:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Octavius
That's right, Bennet Brauer here with another commentary. Didn't think the suits would have me back perhaps. Thought they'd have my dairy-air replaced by one of tem store mannequin well maybe I'm not "the norm". I'm not "camera friendly", I don't "wear clothes that fit me", I'm not a "heartbreaker", I haven't had "sex with a woman", I don't know "how that works", I don't "fall in line", I'm not "hygienic", I don't "wipe properly", I lack "style", I don't have "self-esteem", I have no "charisma", I don't "own a toothbrush", I don't "let my scabs heal", I can't "reach all the parts of my body", when I sleep I sweat profusely. But I guess the powers that be will keep signing my pay check until Jack and Jane K. Viewer start to go for the remote so they can get back to commentators who don't "frighten children", who don't "eat their own dandruff", who don't "pop their whiteheads with a compass they used in high school". Thank you, Kevin.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/52_1161127016_bennettbrauer2.jpg)

I was just gonna post that. Marry me Oct!!!
Title: Why do "we" do this?
Post by: Stang on October 17, 2006, 06:53:44 PM: Quote
Originally posted by FUNKED1
I was just gonna post that. Marry me Oct!!!
You're 3,000 miles from bliss, Funked. Start driving.

:aok