[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re:, was question for Amanda now poor punctuation

[Doreen]

--Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> I haven't answered the main post yet, but this reminded me of my
> personal pet peeve. It's getting to be a very common usage in ads
and on
> signs down here, and it's nothing in any text I've ever looked at. I
> just see it everywhere and hate it. It's the use of double quotation
> marks as emphasis. Examples:
>
> Come in and see our "quality" merchandise!
> "Everything" on sale!
> "Please" keep door shut.

Thanks "so" much for the headache, Amanda.  :)
I actually refuse to "shop" in stores that do this in their
advertising, because I think it's such a horrible thing to do.
It's as if they're saying - "We almost mean that our merchandise is
quality, but it isn't really..."
I mean, if they're trying for regular punctuation marks for signage
purposes, use an * or at least try < and > in whatever order, if it's
SO much more expensive to use bolding or underlining or something.
Argh.
Amanda, you are absolutely right. I need food too!
******************
I may be wrong, but I think the effect they are trying for here is one of
*my* pet peeves ... and that is the little quotation thingy that people do
in the air with their fingers when they are trying to add extra emphasis to
a word or phrase or they are being sarcastic. Who the heck started that
annoying action, anyway?

Doreen, who USED to capitalize for emphasis until someone told her it was
*very* rude ... now she likes the *star* thingy ... and writing in third
person *weg*



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