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The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

Posted on 13 Apr 09 by FmH

I’ve received a number of links to the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks. I’m as much a “grammarian” as many others out there, but my feeling is that enough is enough. Yes, we get it, most sign-posters do not know how to use quotation marks. Very little rationale, IMHO, to keep amassing example after example of this pretty annoying but pretty common English usage blunder. Now, is there much of descriptivist pushback against prescriptivists with respect to unnecessary quotation mark practice, given how widely distributed this usage pattern is?

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Is honor killing a Muslim issue?

Posted on 25 Feb 09 by FmH

Given the recent beheading by an American Muslim of his ex-wife, this is a Google search on the question, “Is honor killing a Muslim issue|problem?” (In the spirit of the ‘memewatches’ Jorn Barger used to do in Robot Wisdom, if that means anything to you…)

Domestic Violence Vs. Honor Killing (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
The Case Of Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
Wife Said Decapitated By Founder Of Muslim-American TV Network [Crime] (gawker.com)
Islam Didn’t Kill Aasiya (jossip.com)
Afghan Immigrant Convicted In “Honor Killing” Of Sister In Germany (huffingtonpost.com)
-Muslim ‘Honor’ Beheading in Buffalo? (answersforthefaith.com)

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