Does it drive you crazy when people insist on putting quotation marks around a seemingly random word in a sentence or phrase? Have you ever seen a sign in a store saying something like this?
All Winter Clothing on "Sale"
Is it not really on sale? Is someone saying "sale" and not the rest of it?
uh-oh, I do this. I do it when I'm using the word to be something not everyone would understand. As in, I "know" the answers. By that I mean, intuitively, not learned or educated. Another one is, it "came" to me. Meaning it didn't physically come to me, it came to me in meditation or deep thought. So, does that bug you too? I bet it does. Smiles!
"Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition. "— Rodney Stark
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uh-oh, I do this. I do it when I'm using the word to be something not everyone would understand. As in, I "know" the answers. By that I mean, intuitively, not learned or educated. Another one is, it "came" to me. Meaning it didn't physically come to me, it came to me in meditation or deep thought. So, does that bug you too? I bet it does. Smiles!
Hmmm...somehow I think those examples are a bit closer to the "proper" use of quotation marks. ;)
Well, I hope you don't get too annoyed by my sometimes poor spelling!
Well, I'm usually ont *that* bad, LOL!
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