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Thank you so much for posting the links, they were supposed to have shown up at the bottom of my reply, I think I did something wrong for looking at it they are not there. Oh-well I am still learning the ins and outs of this system.
I chose this to give a better example. In the future I will double check to make sure everything posts, as well as make it a rule to not post anything after I have been awake for almost twenty-four hours. (I have been dealing with an asthmatic two year-old who has the croup.) Please accept my apologias, and as stated, thank you for correcting my oversight.
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Not a problem. The software on this site is a bit antiquated. I cannot edit any of my posts without the HTML pseudo-markup becoming HTML text. Strange. Hope your child gets well soon.
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everybody is wrong, i.e., the linguist trendy wannabes and the aged humument curmudgeons.
I believe I understand what you are saying, I have just one question, for I have never run across this word before, what is "humument"?
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I hope he recovers quickly as well, he is on some very potent steroids as well as breathing treatments at the moment. Thank you for the warm wishes.
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A Humument is a treated Victorian novel created by Tom Phillips. The book that got treated was originally published as A Human Document in the 19th century. More info at the link below: http://www.rosacordis.com/humument/
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jheem, what are scare quotes, please? I looked at the site but didn't see anything unusual, except for the symbols in parts of his Montreal listing. Unless you meant that "non linguistic", "semantic", and "listed" are somehow scary?
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Jackie-- Scare quotes are quotation marks bracketing a word that calls attention to the word's being used in some rhetorical manner. Related to "air quotes", where the speakers crooks her/his fingers in the air while saying the word. Earlier examples, are "quote", "unquote", being used to wrap the word, phrase, or sentence. You're not really quoting anybody when you type: My good "friend" Joe Bodaracco came to see me yesterday. Compare that with the un-scare-quoted version. Nice writeup here thanks to Google: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/local/doc/punctuation/node31.html
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Just thought of another example of this kind of rhetorical device that is geekly in origin: using "^H" to indicate backspace. E.g., The movie I saw last night suc^H^H^H stinks. The "^H" digraph comes from the representation of Control-H, which maps to the backspace or delete keys under some OSes. It's in pretty common usage since Usenet days.
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Whoa, cool--you learn something every day, for sure! Thanks! I've been doing this for years (probably far too much) but never knew it had a particular name. From your link:
Quotation marks used in this way are informally called scare quotes. Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase from which you, the writer, wish to distance yourself because you consider that word or phrase to be odd or inappropriate for some reason. Possibly you regard it as too colloquial for formal writing; possibly you think it's unfamiliar or mysterious; possibly you consider it to be inaccurate or misleading; possibly you believe it's just plain wrong. Quite often scare quotes are used to express irony or sarcasm Are they called scare quotes because the writer is supposedly scared of associating him/herself with what is in the quotation marks? Woops--just read the article to the end: Quotation marks are not properly used merely in order to draw attention to words...I can't really approve of scare quotes used in this way. If you think a word is appropriate, then use it, without any quotes; if you think it's not appropriate, then don't use it, unless you specifically want to be ironic. Simultaneously using a word and showing that you don't approve of it will only make you sound like an antiquated fuddy-duddy.  Ah well, if the shoe fits, Jackie...
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The movie I saw last night suc^H^H^H stinks.
Thank you for saying where the digraph can be keyed. I have never seen this before. Why is backspace considered insulting? Does suc^H^H^H have a pronunciation, and if so, what, please? And why are there 3 of them--to cancel out the s, u, and c? Is it a way to avoid plainly putting sucks? If so, again why 3 of them? [totally lost e]
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