I just stumbled upon a site called The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. It’s a crusade against all those quotes you see that are either redundant, ridiculous, bad grammar, or all of the above.
For example, here’s a photo from the site:
I know most of these misquoters are using the quotes for emphasis. But, it’s still wrong. And annoying. (I guess no one remembers the underline anymore. We should wage a campaign to Bring Back the Underline!) Just for the record, here is when you would correctly use quotation marks:
The primary function of quotation marks is to set off and represent exact language (either spoken or written) that has come from somebody else.
And, don’t even get us started on air quotes.
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