Grammatical prescriptivism annoys me to no end. (No ending sentences with prepositions? Ridiculous! Don't split infinitives? Poppycock!) Well, except when I do it... There are exactly two valid uses of quotation marks: when you mean something literally, and when you mean something nonliterally. It ought to be hard to mess that up. But the following... »
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Grammatical Interlude: The Two Acceptable Uses of Quotation Marks
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Tags: grammar, pedantry
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Sharad Goel and Daniel Reeves work in the Microeconomics and Social Systems (MESS) Group at Yahoo! Research.
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