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	Scare quotes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In journalism, scare quotes are quotation marks used for any other purpose than to identify a direct quotation, such as for emphasis or irony.
		The effect of using scare quotes is similar to inserting so-called to modify a word: in both cases, the object is to express disagreement with the word, but only by calling attention to the word without actually explaining why the author disagrees with it.
		The spoken equivalent of scare quotes are known as air quotes or finger quotes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scare_quotes (295 words)

	Quotation mark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quotes are also sometimes used for emphasis in lieu of underlining or italics, most commonly found on signs or placards.
		Straight quotes (or italic straight quotes) are often used to approximate the prime and double prime (e.g., when signifying inches and feet, or arcminutes and arcseconds).
		Curved and straight quotes are also sometimes referred to as “smart quotes” and "dumb quotes" respectively; these names are in reference to the name of a function found in word processors like Microsoft Word that automatically converts straight quotes typed by the user into curved quotes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quotation_mark (4178 words)

	Scare Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase from which you, the writer, wish to distance yourself because you consider that word or phrase to be odd or inappropriate for some reason.
		Quite often scare quotes are used to express irony or sarcasm:
		Using scare quotes like this is the orthographic equivalent of holding the phrase at arm's length with one hand and pinching your nose with the other.
	www.cogs.susx.ac.uk /doc/punctuation/node31.html (514 words)

	pas au-delà: your scare quotes, they are really "scaring" me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scare quotes may be saying EITHER, "I do not think this word means what you think it means," OR "this common term is perhaps not the most useful.
		Thus, the scare quote would only be serious cause for fear if one insisted on overestimating what it is in fact saying (thus inviting, naturally enough, all kinds of speculation about the listener's knee-jerk fidelity to the dogma and ideological encrustations invariably imbedded in common sense everyday language, etc.)
		Contrary to what everybody and their mother (and especially in England) seems to think, these are not to be used interchangably with scare quotes, or as a more sophisticated (or lazy, or both) substitute for regular quotation marks.
	pasaudela.blogspot.com /2006/01/your-scare-quotes-they-are-really.html (1270 words)

	Brian O'Connell
		I was thinking about posting on this picayune issue yet again because it proved that the scare quotes were in fact ironic and not actual quotes, belying the BBC's claim of straight reporting of facts without political considerations coloring (or colouring) their reporting.
		What this tells me is that they generate the scare quotes as ironic quotes when they are in the mood, and haphazardly rely on someone having actually said the thing to intrinsically justify them.
		The headlines, scare quotes and all, come from headline writers whose choice of what to ironically quote represents their own views of what's ironic, or dubious.
	broc7.blogspot.com /2004_02_01_broc7_archive.html (584 words)

	Language Log: Secure and insecure scare quotes
		The quote marks were a sign that this might not be the correct word to use.
		And that's when it struck me that there were two shades of meaning for scare quotes, pragmatically distinguished.
		When a full professor who works in some field like linguistics or philosophy puts a word or phrase in scare quotes, it's about the word or phrase: it's an indication that it may be the wrong one, an expression that ignorant and careless writers elsewhere have used but which really should be eschewed.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002188.html (253 words)

	The College Hill Independent
		That is, in its freewheeling use of scare quotes, the Indy seems to assume that its readers share the same cultural and educational backgrounds, as well as similar positions on whatever politics or issues are at play in the article.
		The larger issue is that writing with excessive parentheses and scare quotes assumes a readership that is aware of and comfortable with reading texts featuring these forms of punctuation in high volume.
		On a broader note, the use of parentheses and scare quotes, like any choice of style, always limits who will be able or want to read one's writing.
	www.brown.edu /Students/INDY/archives/2005-04-21/articles/lit-yaster_style.php (2063 words)

	God Save the Queen: Tackling the menace
		Instead of needing to explain why a given statement is false or misleading, one simply puts scare quotes or sneer quotes around a word and no further comment is required.
		The implicit assumption underlying their use is that the reader is more interested in knowing the opinion of the writer, that is, the opinion is the important thing – more important than the facts (indeed they’re the perfect expression of postmodernism in action: the distinction between opinion and fact is silently effaced).
		The use of scare quotes is banned in this blog.
	godsavethequeen.typepad.com /god_save_the_queen/2004/08/tackling_the_me.html (412 words)

	Semantic Compositions: Scary quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's hard to read the sign as using quotation marks to indicate that somebody (the owner?) is actually being quoted, since they're only around a single word and not the whole phrase.
		But assuming it is a scare quote, they certainly don't mean that it's the wrong word, so it's not the professorial usage.
		Scare quotes are used to cast doubt on the word(s) quoted.
	semanticcompositions.typepad.com /index/2005/05/scary_quotes.html (828 words)

	Political Animal: Comment on "Scare" Quotes
		The strange use of scare quotes in this instance is part of a secret code only known to idiots and NR writers, the latter being a subset of the former.
		Perhaps the "obesity" quotes allude to the fact that the standard measure for obesity -- the Body Mass Index -- is far from a reliable indicator, on an individual level, of health.
		Given that readers here are quoting texts that use quote marks, there's reasonable doubt about whether they should use the outer-mark that actually appears in a text, vs. the inner-mark of a quoted quotation.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=4043 (3392 words)

	BatesLine: Scare quotes as a tool for media bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reuters and the BBC are renowned for using scare quotes to distance themselves from Western Civilization's War against Islamist Terrorism -- this for example was a BBC web headline when Saddam Hussein's sons were killed:
		Here in Tulsa we saw extensive use of scare quotes in coverage of the District 4 City Council.
		There is nothing shifty or unusual about this practice, but the scare quotes suggest that an alias is being used, or perhaps he is some sort of eccentric or "colorful character", like Virginia "Blue Jeans" Jenner or Cowboy "Pink" Williams.
	www.batesline.com /archives/000478.html (901 words)

	BatesLine: More about "scare quotes"
		His first paragraph links to an example of Reuters' use of scare quotes, and that article links to this Weekly Standard column by Alan Jacobs, Wheaton College Professor of English, about the use of scare quotes in coverage of the War on Terror, and how they are a ready substitute for serious analysis and debate.
		(Scare quotes are also sometimes called "sneer quotes", which comes closer to conveying the attitude of the writer who uses them.)
		Scare quotes have two functions, the first of which is quite straightforward: They allow their users very easily to express incredulity about, and often contempt for, the views of their political opponents.
	www.batesline.com /archives/000481.html (454 words)

	Scare quotes: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(scare quotes are quotation mark[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]s used in a context other than to identify a direct quotation.
		(an author who uses the term scare quotes to describe them generally does so disapprovingly.
		(and the resulting text should be critically scanned to see whether the scare quotes may not be omitted without loss.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scare_quotes.htm (235 words)

	The Eggcorn Database » square
		The Japanese and Chinese languages use square quote marks, because they are well-suited to languages that can be written in both vertical and horizontal orientations and can be easily distinguished from Chinese characters.
		Double quotes are used to mark quote-within-quote segments.
		English-style double quotes are also used for Chinese, but only rarely in Japanese due to the possibility of confusion with the dakuten sign: especially when handwritten, “か” ka might be incorrectly interpreted as が ga, but 「か」 is unambiguous.
	eggcorns.lascribe.net /english/63/square (332 words)

	Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment - Martin Harries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment - Martin Harries
		The author shows that allusion to supernatural moments in Shakespeare (“scare quotes”) allows writers to both acknowledge and distance themselves from the supernatural phenomena that challenge their disenchanted understanding of the social world.
		Dircks resorted to magical rhetoric in response to his loss, which is emblematic for the book as a whole, charting ways the scare quote can, paradoxically, continue the work of enlightenment.
	www.sup.org /book.cgi?book_id=3621 (519 words)

	jay sennett jaywalks: Decentering Whiteness in the "Trans" Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When you use "scare quotes," you are placing a term in quotation marks to indicate your distrust or dissatisfaction with the meaning it is usually understood to have, either officially or unofficially.
		I was asking about you, Jay Sennett, and how the term in scare quotes functions--excuse me, how the term functions in (read: with) its scare quotes when you, Jay Sennett apply it to a person of color.
		So he decides to use scare quotes around all of them from then on, so as to challenge the idea that these supposedly inclusive terms are actually inclusive or agreed-upon.
	www.jaysennett.com /blog/2006/03/decentering_whiteness_in_the_t.htm (4182 words)

	Media Backspin
		Note which one gets scare quotes, distancing the news agency from the statement from the very start of the article:
		His first paragraph links to an example of Reuters' use of scare quotes, and t...
		So-called "scare quotes" are a useful rhetorical tool, put to use when you'd just as soon distance yourself from what's being said.
	backspin.typepad.com /backspin/2003/11/reuters_scare_q.html (318 words)

	Gelf Magazine: Scare Quotes
		Not quoted: "I was a bit put off in the first few minutes by the arriving cast of characters as they pretty much cover the entire spectrum of gay and ethnic stereotypes..."
		Not quoted: "[Cinematographer Gilles Porte's] idealized vision of life in semirural northern France portrays it as a robust, happy culture of people who know how to live in the moment and lack grandiose expectations.
		The quote ascribed to Holden in the blurb is nowhere to be found in his otherwise mostly positive review.
	www.gelfmagazine.com /mt/archives/scare_quotes.html (857 words)

	Quotation Marks and Direct Quotations
		Since an apostrophe is usually indistinguishable from a closing quote mark, the reader may be momentarily misled into thinking that she has come to the end of the quotation when she has not.
		These are not part of their quotations, and so the logical view places them outside the quote marks, while the conventional view places them inside, on the theory that a closing quote should always follow another punctuation mark.
		Here, putting the full stop inside the closing quotes, as required by the conventionalists, would produce an idiotic result, since the whole point of the quotation is that the lamented general didn't live long enough to finish it.
	www.informatics.susx.ac.uk /doc/punctuation/node30.html (2362 words)

	History News Network
		Scare Quotes Scare Me When the AHR comes, the first things I read are: the table of contents, the Asia book reviews and the "Communications to the Editor" in the back.
		The first is mostly an exercise in futility, as there's an average of one article per issue that I feel obligated to read.
		So, in addition to structuralist/post-structuralist fireworks, we have a sign of the continuing degradation of scholarly writing: "scare quotes" in the text of a published monograph and as an issue in review.
	hnn.us /blogs/entries/18510.html (451 words)

	What is the name for the quote fingers gesture? \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I've heard "scare quotes" used for quotes used to indicate a negative opinion (frex, criminal "justice" system).
		Typographically speaking, the curved quotes are called smart quotes and are more desirable then their ugly little brother - the dumb quote.
		Written scare quotes are used to indicate that the phrase inside the quotation marks is something that someone else might say, but the author certainly wouldn't.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/17658 (1235 words)

	Notes from the Lounge: House Style
		With apologies to some perfectly lovely people I know who work there, I've decided that so long as the Washington Times preposterously insists upon referring to gay "marriage" in scare quotes, I'll adopt a parallel practice with respect to that "newspaper" and the "journalists" it employs.
		It is perfectly proper to describe marriage ceremonies in states where same-sex marriage is not allowed by law as "weddings" or "marriage" ceremonies--in quotes.
		Posted by: David T at March 26, 2005 01:17 AM "scare quotes" is a term of art; it doesn't mean the quotes are actually supposed to scare anyone.
	juliansanchez.com /notes/archives/2005/03/house_style.php (724 words)

	MemeFirst: See the warbloggers' knees jerk!
		Furthermore, the quotes round "escapes" weren't scare quotes, they were quote quotes.
		The only evidence the BBC has that Mr Hamill escaped is the word of one person, US Army spokesman Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt, who had no first-hand evidence of the escape, and who felt the need to qualify his own account with the word "apparently".
		Yet, when Saddam would hold elections, there would be no scare quotes to speak of to suggest that the 'landslide' wasn't exactly uncoerced.
	www.memefirst.com /000467.html (298 words)

	simpleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You would be hard pressed to find a publication that uses scare quotes with greater frequency.
		Scare quotes are verbal ice tongs, a signal that the phrase in question is a kind of alien organism which may carry a horrible virus, and which you wouldn't even be handling except that, for the good of humanity, you are obliged to expose its virulence.
		But the most crucial function of scare quotes is the simplest - to let the reader know that you are too cool (or better yet, too anti-cool) to be using this word the same way that some slob in a smelly t-shirt would use it.
	www.simpleton.com /19990304.html (1613 words)

	Hit and Run
		Comment by: wsdave at February 20, 2006 03:17 PM Quote marks are used when the quote is directly attributed to someone.
		Comment by: Di's Ghost at February 20, 2006 03:22 PM Perhaps the quote marks around "stalkerazzi" are there because someone actually said it (thus making it a quote).
		I'm not sure what the controversy is over the quotation marks in my article, but for what it's worth, I put the term in quotes the first time to indicate that it's a neologism not of my invention, and did not use quotes in subsequent examples because the term had already been introduced.
	www.reason.com /hitandrun/2006/02/new_at_reason_1022.shtml (2070 words)

	Uncommon Ground: Environmental ethics Archives
		In the preceding two essays, I've suggested (1) that there isn't a single state of nature towards which biotic communities tend, a state of balance and (2) that “Nature” (remember what the scare quotes and capitalization mean) is largely a human construct that we use for rhetorical and persuasive purposes.
		“Nature” (with the scare quotes) is the human construct we use for rhetorical and persuasive purposes.
		Nature (no scare quotes and capitalized only because it's at the beginning of a sentence) is the transcendent reality that exists independently of human thought and perception.
	darwin.eeb.uconn.edu /uncommon-ground/archives/environmental_ethics (855 words)

	The Smoking Room: Scary Quotie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As far as I know they are the only conservative organization or publication to use this verbal slight, following in the dubious footsteps of news agency Reuters, which often describes terrorists as "terrorists" and otherwise uses scare quotes to cast doubt on the legitimacy of a given description.
		Using quotes around a word when it is used outside its definition is correct usage.
		For now the definition of marriage is largely a state matter, and if Massachusetts has decided that gay couples can marry, then the Washington Times should recognize this act of the state (even if they don't like the judicial usurpation) and drop the scare quotes.
	www.gregpiper.com /archives/002646.html (430 words)

	Quotations [Robin’s HTML 4.0 Conformance Test] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Depending on its capabilities, it could use curly left and right quotes instead of straight ASCII quote marks.
		title="suck: The Jawbone of a Scare Quote (20 Mar 2000)">
		The scare quotes let you know the jury’s still out—the euphemism may become reality if it’s tenacious enough to get the nod from the dictionary someday or to shed the scare quotes in the paper.
	www.robinlionheart.com /stds/html4/quote (941 words)

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