The QCA proposes a maximum C-grade in GCSE English for any pupil who does not 'punctuate accurately using commas, apostrophes and
inverted commas'.
The sad thing is that women bosses are such a rarity that they are still discussed with this novelty value and in
inverted commas. The same way that we still use the appalling term ``lady doctor''.
Jean has earned a living from performing her work all over the world for the past 16 years and yet the 'newspaper' that reported the story felt the need to use
inverted commas when it referred to Jean as a 'performance poet.'
Viewers watched her fume at the cameras: ``The boys are `interior designers' in
inverted commas.''
120); the signs < > appear sometimes instead of
inverted commas; use of [beta]/ss and GDR/ DDR is inconsistent; some quotations from German are translated, some not; avoidable errors include: Block (for Bloch, page headings pp.
Someone wrote to this paper on Tuesday suggesting a response to the bookmakers' "offer" (the
inverted commas are there only to establish the fact that it's punters' money, not their own, over which they are haggling)
Instead, however, they enclose Shakespeare himself in
inverted commas, and claim not only the Quarto but the Folio versions of his plays as the rather fortuitous outcome of ~a particular collaborative mechanism of cultural production'.
Unfortunately, they omitted to mention the category that I fall into - the one percent who will never condone violence but who want to stick gaffer tape over the gobs of anyone who uses lingo such as attention bandwith, ring-fencing, viral marketing, bottom line, brainstorming, cubicle monkeys, user-centric, political transparency or who emphasises a point by doing that "
inverted commas in the air" thingy.
My father and I can still while away an evening discussing apostrophe placement, single versus double
inverted commas and the merits of semi-colons.
In the dumbed down, pop idolising, Big Mac 'culture' (those
inverted commas have never been more significant) of modern Britain what did we expect?
"It's great to win a `Grand National', with two great big
inverted commas!"
I use
inverted commas round its name because we all know that the forum is merely a rubber stamp for what the leadership decides.