Article & Blog on Annoying "Quote" Abuse

[JNA]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...qTvA_SAIkWXzAg

HIGHLIGHT

The blight that Bethany Keeley exposes on her "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com) is of a benign sort, of course, nothing like global warming or endangered wildlife.

Do you think the use of "quotes" are overly abused ?
Do you have any good bad examples ?

Do you or know anybody that still does the 2 hand, 2 finger quote jesture like Dr. Evil ?

Another good example of the grammer police in action.

[Michele Zone]

Her rant was probably inspired by some e-mail of mine.

[Wannaplan?]

That blog is a great example of why I enjoy surfing the "Information Superhighway." Thank you for sharing!

[btrage]

I've actually made comments in these forums about my frequent use of of quotations.

However, I do not use them in person like Dr. Evil.

[Otis]

Oh! Then there is the related punctuation abuse problem of using an exclamation point for something that isn't an exclamation!

I used to get a magazine that had a frequent contributor who used quotation marks and exclamation points like they were money-makers for him. Drove me nuts. I thought editors edited articles, but in this case at least it wasn't true. Maybe that's one of the reasons the magazine is now defunct.

[zman]

I use quotes in a lot of my writing, but I think I use them "just enough."

However, (and this is my opinion [you know]) I believe that my usage of parenthesis (if I could spell that correctly), is out of hand (or out of control).

[geobandito]

"Great" site. And some great links, too. I like www.passiveaggressivenotes.com.

[michaelskis]

Well "I" don't know if I would call it "annoying" or "abuse" given "society" has "particular expectations" of what can and can not be "said."