Scare Quotes At The End Of A Sentence

The scare quotes sound the alarm and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used. The point here is that the town has been officially declared a safe haven by the UN whereas in fact as the quote marks make clear it is anything but safe.

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Generally speaking the end punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks.

Scare quotes at the end of a sentence. Among the oldest and most frequently attested is the percontation point proposed by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s and the irony mark used by Marcellin Jobard and French. The scare quotes alas are necessary for much of what is meant to have the effect of education winds up being decidedly uneducational or educational in the wrong way. Quite often scare quotes are used to express irony or sarcasm.

Scare quotes are quotation marks framing a word or phrase to call attention to it and point out that the writer does not accept the word or phrase as valid or that the writer is casting aspersions. Theyre just trying to scare us into letting out the secret. The Serbs are closing in on the safe haven.

The huntsman sent a beater ahead to scare out the partridge. You can add scare quotes to imperialism. I use the scare quotes to emphasize pace Foucault and Derrida the impossibilities and potentialities of the moment of meaning at the site of reading.

For example one might write Several experts were unable to provide a convincing explanation This sentence mocks the supposed experts for their failure to demonstrate their expertise. Dont be silly said the clown. One case is the careless use of quotation marks for emphasis.

What makes me uncertain about my example sentence is that Im not sure how to properly apply the quoted material. Irony punctuation is any proposed form of notation used to denote irony or sarcasm in text. My favorite poem is Mr.

Hardly a week goes by without some food scare being reported in the media. Where does the end punctuation go after scare quotes. Written English lacks a standard way to mark irony and several forms of punctuation have been proposed.

Scare quotes also known as sneer quotes are used to cast doubt on a word or phrase or to emphasize that the word or phrase is being used as a euphemism. In that sentence if its strictly necessary for your mental health. I always thought that if the end mark was for the entire sentence then the punctuation was out.

Dont be silly said the clown. It seems to me that the quote marks are being used here as scare quotes to signal unusual usage or perhaps its nonstandard usage where a typographic change like italicizing or bolding would be more appropriate. Scare quotes as quotation marks employed for this purpose are called are often used to call out nonstandard or unusual terms or merely to introduce a word or phrase.

Usually this implies. Quotation marks around single words can occasionally be used for emphasis but only when quoting a word or term someone else used. The latest health scare has made a very considerable dent in the sales of beef.

The explosion at the chemical factory caused a majo. 1562018 Scare quotes also called shudder quotes are quotation marks used around a word or phrase not to indicate a direct quotation but to suggest that the expression is somehow inappropriate or misleadingthe equivalent of writing supposed. He doesnt scare easily.

Scare quotes also known even more colorfully as shudder quotes and sneer quotes are identical to standard quotation marks but do precisely the opposite of what quotation. My favorite poem is Mr. 1362011 Keep It Inside.

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