Wednesday, April 29, 2009

it's like a double negative


James asks "Does putting quotation marks around the word 'faux' mean 'genuine'?" A good question.

8 comments:

  1. Maybe they think all foreign words should have quotation marks. Even rather well-known ones.

    'Course, given the elementary school setting, someone's going to pronounce it "fawks."

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  2. I think if you put quotation marks around the word faux the universe will disappear . . .

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    "FAUX"

    *poof*

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  3. More importantly--what do the sideways quotation marks at the end signify?

    Is this a new and heretofore-undiscovered level of irony--the Higgs Boson of irony? Could we be on the verge of a dramatic punctuation breakthrough?

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  4. Did the same school offer lessons in creative literacy?

    Lucy

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  5. Weeeell more excusable than most. Obviously they see it as a weird, and maybe slightly pretentious foreign word.

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  6. I'm also intrigued by the sideways quotation marks.

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  7. Nope. It just makes it doubly fake.

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  8. great to see this ....
    thanks for sharing......


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