The value of "quotation marks"

[Ruth]

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[Ken, Moderator]

Are quotation marks becoming the "new" apostrophes, dotting the landscape every way you "look"?

I "hope" not.

[[deleted user]]

Me too... but how can you resist these treasures?

This one is a quiz, I think. Only one set of quotation marks is used correctly. *wink, wink*

[Jim]

"Meat Service"?!?

The mind reels...

[[deleted user]]

Naahhh... it's the fake "cheese" in the cheeseburgers, silly people!

[Anthony]

Gabi wrote: "When you see those sets of quotation marks, it means, over here anyway, that it isn't the real thing! Its fake or otherwise what it's supposed to be."
It also has the connotation of "so called", as in, 'I want for a so-called (nudge, nudge) "massage"'.

[Ruth]

Heehee!

[Ken, Moderator]

Real cheese is hard to find these days (spare, maybe, at a chili convention). Everything's called "cheese food" (quotation marks), which worries me enough to give it a wide berth. That's because I know what the FDA considers "food" these days.

[Ruth]

Newengland wrote: "Real cheese is hard to find these days (spare, maybe, at a chili convention). Everything's called "cheese food" (quotation marks), which worries me enough to give it a wide berth. That's because I ..."

I dunno about the stores you shop in, NE. Seems to me there's more good cheese out there than there used to be by a long shot.

[Ken, Moderator]

I'm talking about sliced American cheese. The stuff in the cooler, not behind the deli.

But yes, the amount of artisan cheese is WAY up. New England is a hotbed for cheesy farming, or so I've herd....

[Doug]

Would not stuff age in the store rather be made fresher?

[Doug]

Here is a good place for me to preach one of my pet peeves. I will do with Quotation marks because I do not know how to underline.

We are discussing the "signage" on these "signs". Meaning the information conveyed or placed on the "sign" is the "signage" but the physical board or metal or whatever the "sign" is made out of is the actual "sign".

So a "stop sign" is any sign that conveys the message "STOP".

[Ruth]

Doug wrote: "Would not stuff age in the store rather be made fresher?"

Huh?

[Ken, Moderator]

I don't get the stuff age in the store line, either, but in the next post I think Doug is talking metaphors. I think.

Doug? Care to take another shot at it?

[Doug]

Gabi wrote: "Doug wrote: "Would not stuff age in the store rather be made fresher?"

What?"

My text should have said:
"Wouldn't something age in the store rather than be made "fresh"?

Since that is a totally wrong statement someone tried to make it believable with the QUOTATION MARKS.

The sign says: made "fresh" in store but of course it would become less fresh every day because it ages in the store. I am sorry sometimes my computer gets slow and omits letters or a whole word or more.

Things are freshly made, not made fresh. Ha Ha Ha Wink.

Doug