necso
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Sat Mar-26-05 01:18 AM
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32. Do note the quotation marks. |
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Quotation marks can be used to denote words being defined, used in a special sense or used for a special purpose.
For the first two usages a special sense is intended (along with a direct form of definition) as in: not necessarily as claimed -- or not always as a literal interpretation might seem to dictate -- or not as it might seem.
The third usage is one of bounding (as in a quote) the words that make up an explicit definition (in the specific context of "all too often" and "In practise").
Whether these usages are appropriate usages is another matter. It is sufficient for me that they are my practises.
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