Comments on: Grammatical Interlude: The Two Acceptable Uses of Quotation Marks /scarequotes/ Bring your own data Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Amy Leskowski /scarequotes/#comment-523932 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 23:08:00 +0000 /?p=460#comment-523932 In reply to Daniel Reeves.

Thank you, Daniel! Wow, I didn’t know if I’d get a response as this seemed like an old post! Thank you :)

]]> By: Daniel Reeves /scarequotes/#comment-523931 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:16:00 +0000 /?p=460#comment-523931 In reply to Amy Leskowski.

Not necessary there! “Old soul” isn’t the father’s coinage. Kind of like how “my roommate called me a deadbeat” doesn’t want quotes around “deadbeat” even if my roommate literally called me that.

]]> By: Amy Leskowski /scarequotes/#comment-523930 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:46:00 +0000 /?p=460#comment-523930 I’m wandering around the internet trying to figure out if it’s acceptable to use scare quotes in this situation:

He has what his father calls an old soul.

Should it be:

He has what his father calls “an old soul.”

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