A blog I can “get behind”
This is what the Internet is for: Making fun of unnecessary quotation marks.
Isn’t it “funny” how something can “really annoy” you for ages and then you discover via “the Internet” that the same thing “really annoys” thousands of “other people,” too?
Yes, AP writer, it is “funny!”
The blight that Bethany Keeley exposes on her “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com ) is of a benign sort, of course, nothing like global warming or endangered wildlife.
But it bothers people mightily just the same, as this 24-year-old grad student and language-lover has discovered from the hundreds, occasionally thousands of visitors she gets daily. And nary a day goes by when she doesn’t receive a bunch of e-mails with photographic evidence of quote abuse, misuse or overuse.
As in:
-The sign in Fletcher, Okla., which advertised a tractor club’s ANNUAL SHOW — “Labor Day Weekend.”
-The restaurant billboard in Madison, Wis., which felt the need to put quotes around “Lunch” and “Dinners.”
-The bathroom sign that asked visitors to Leave the Light “On” during business hours. (“On” was also underlined. Twice.)
-The currently featured “Good Luck Amy” cake, which not only wastes frosting on those quote marks, but also adds parentheses around the whole message.
There’s also a regular stop sign with a handwritten “Stop” beneath it, for good measure apparently. Then there’s the security guard at a rest area in Mississippi, a “SECURITY GUARD” sign beneath him that unwittingly casts doubt on the whole enterprise.
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Heh that is pretty funny. However, I think only a “grammar Nazi” would blog it.
Comment by Dmitry — September 22, 2007 @ 5:45
“Nazi”, you say? “NAZI!!”
Achtung! Ve know where you live
und where you store your “cute”
little .jpg piktures of snall “kittens”.
It vud be terrible if dey were
“aksidentally” erased, Jah??
Dot is all that need to be said.
Comment by McMozzbi — September 22, 2007 @ 13:25