{"id":1028,"date":"2020-02-18T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2020-02-19T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T05:56:25","slug":"proper-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/18\/proper-punctuation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Proper&#8221; punctuation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I honestly have no idea what ordinary people intend when they use quotation marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Quotation marks can be used to mark quotations, obviously. They can be used as scare quotes, to mark words or phrases which have implicature that you&#8217;d like to cancel. They can be used to mark titles of articles. Philosophers use them to highlight the use\/mention distinction.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1028' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/02\/18\/proper-punctuation\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1028' title=' A coauthor edited out all my use of quotation marks in a draft, on the grounds that the target audience was non-philosophers who don&amp;#8217;t generally make the use\/mention distinction and would just find it confusing.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But take this bit of administrative verbiage, which might be read as a reference to the Spike Lee movie if it weren&#8217;t for the lower-case:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This document  serves as a guide to the expectations and standards of behavior and  provides basic principles to assist the University Community to always  \u201cdo the right thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-01-25-quote-garden.jpg?resize=840%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-01-25-quote-garden.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-01-25-quote-garden.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-01-25-quote-garden.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Another specimen of the spurious q-mark, from a local park.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly have no idea what ordinary people intend when they use quotation marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-gA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}