It sounded to me like the quoted words were an indentifier, as in: signed Larry Sorry of the inconvenience committee
It's "manage"ment"!" Of course it's unsorry"!"
Perhaps they were just quoting someone else who, in the past at some point, stated that they were sorry for some inconvenience perpetrated on some other person/people. They thought it sounded good to say it, so they quoted the unknown person...
Quotation marks are perfectly appropriate here.'"Sorry for the inconvenience", management' quotes the management for saying 'Sorry for the inconvenience'. You know, not every use of quotation marks is ironic. Use for actual quotations are still allowed!
It sounded to me like the quoted words were an indentifier, as in: signed Larry Sorry of the inconvenience committee
ReplyDeleteIt's "manage"ment"!" Of course it's unsorry"!"
ReplyDeletePerhaps they were just quoting someone else who, in the past at some point, stated that they were sorry for some inconvenience perpetrated on some other person/people. They thought it sounded good to say it, so they quoted the unknown person...
ReplyDeleteQuotation marks are perfectly appropriate here.
ReplyDelete'"Sorry for the inconvenience", management' quotes the management for saying 'Sorry for the inconvenience'.
You know, not every use of quotation marks is ironic. Use for actual quotations are still allowed!