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Re: [OM] Especially for our grammar policeman

Subject: Re: [OM] Especially for our grammar policeman
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:13:14 -0700
On 4/27/2017 4:47 PM, John Hudson wrote:
I spotted this news piece and wondered whether our Cambridge resident grammarian had been out and about with his black marker pen :-)

http://tinyurl.com/l3w6lyb

As the great grammarians say, a lot depends on context. In this case, I think that quotation marks would be redundant; the special tablet/plank, or whatever it's called, does the job. Also fussy, detracting from the impact.

Would you put Qmarks around To be or not to be . . . on a banner on the poster 
for a production of Hamlet?

Lithe Moose

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