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Gotta admit it. I overuse squotes.
The Jawbone of a Scare Quote:
Scare quotes are the quotation marks found around phrases like “gangsta rap,” “shame spiral,” or “security zone”: coinages that may be
lingo, that may be jargon, that may even be slang but are more likely excuses where a little distance is in order. The subject of the story
may say it’s “the truth,” but we say it’s spinach and — ya know what? — to hell with it. Scare quotes throw a net
around the ideas and assertions media culture hasn’t absorbed yet, stuff journalism’s jobholders may even be a little afraid of. . . .
. . . scare quotes . . . always call the phrase between them into question.
. . . the ”use of too many quotation marks to apologize for either a fresh or a trite phrase generally is a bad practice.”
. . . ”news writers should never insert their own attitudes or opinions by gratuitously placing quotation marks around words. First,
this practice confuses readers, who may assume the words come from one of the persons being quoted. Second, readers don`t care what
the writer thinks and take the emphasis as a sarcastic insult.”
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