Re: [icon-users] (OT) Sexed quotes, Was: Smart quotes.
- From: Russell Hafter - Lists <rh.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:45:18 +0000 (GMT)
On 27 Feb, Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2013 Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > EasiWriter's smart quotes feature is less extensive
> > than that of other programs (e.g., Impression,
> > OvationPro or ArtWorks). It only replaces single quotes
> > you enter by sexed apostrophes and gives easy shortcuts
> > to enter the other sexed quotes. So, unless you have
> > deliberately chosen to enter any other sexed quotes,
> > you should only find the closing sexed single quote
> > (the apostrophe) in your file.
> I used the expression "sexed quotes" on the newsgroup
> alt.usage.english, and got an outburst of amusement and
> amazedness. Nobody there seemed to have heard this
> usage, though it seems perfectly normal to me, and
> presumably to Martin too. Is it a RISC OS thing, or is
> the whole of the rest of the world out of step with me?
One could argue that "smart quotes" are nothing of the kind.
The way many people use them in e-mail, or in HTML without
use of the proper entity usage inclines me to think of them
as PITA-quotes.
I gave up using them many years ago for just those reasons.
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