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| | AUE: Use of Quotation Marks for Emphasis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Many people laugh at these "emphasis quotes," because, when read in the ordinary way, they seem to indicate that the word in quotes is not to be taken literally. |
 | | Others contend that these "emphasis quotes" are a fait accompli in English usage—their very abundance legitimizes them, and we should adjust our perceptions of quotation marks to include this function of providing emphasis. |
 | | It has been argued that there are already other ways, such as italics, to provide emphasis, but it is hard to refute the counter-argument that all punctuation marks serve more than one purpose, most, including quotation marks themselves, serving several. |
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