/lit/ - Literature

...that's so cool

>>1003022

lol "Care for fare is "Unfair"

You're missing a quotation mark there, buddy.

Has Post-Modernism finally trickled down to the masses?

>this "thread"

>>1003042
So, I am not a native English speaker, but currently live in the US. I see this kind of incorrect use of quotation marks on a semi-regular basis, and it baffles me to no end. What could conceivably someone think they are trying to say when they put "God" in quotation marks there? Or anywhere on the signs posted in this thread? Help me out.

>>1003079

They think quotation-marks emphasize the word they encapsulate. To these people, it serves the same function as underlining.

>>1003079
I am a native English speaker, and this use of quotation marks irritates me to no end. People seem to be using them for emphasis, in the same way someone might use **asterisks**, ALLCAPS, or underlining.

>>1003081

Can-pass-germs

verb

To be state of being capable of transmitting microorganisms from one's own body unto others.

This thread is more unsettling than any /b/ gore thread

>>1003109
>To be state

Ya done goofed.

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

>>1003079

I think the error stems from how it is pronounced. Orally, emphasis is often marked by a brief pause before the word; similarily a brief pause precedes a word you'd put quotation marks around, except that you add air quotes.

This is just a confusion of these two usages of the pause extented into writing.

The use of points of suspension to mark emphasis stems from the same confusion.

You know what pisses me off more than all of this?

MIXING SERIF AND SANS SERIF TYPEFACES!

>>1003152

You will never get laid. Better forget it immediately.

I really hate it when someone uses "dice" when talking about a single die.

I always make a point of chastising them for a few minutes.

>>1003175
I merely correct them by saying "die". They often thinks I'm using the imperative verb, which works just as well. It doesn't bother me quite as much as "dices", though.

>>1003188

>dices

While reading this thread I was slightly confused and then slowly got angrier each time I saw improper use of quotation marks. I then realised this was the point but I wasn't sure if I was missing some bigger joke. Glad I wasn't.

>>1003188
>they often thinks
Oh dear. I must is going to bed now.

>>1003142
>>1003107
>>1003089

Thanks for the insights!

>>1003207

repulsive

>>1003217

"Faggot"

>>1003207
Cute.

Ugly feet though.

How about I put them on the left and right side of my pelvis around my dick

>>1003253

Seems like you'd be selling yourself short

>>1003225
I posted this >>1003217 and you made me laugh.

Hang on, /lit/, I'm going to go "shit" in a my "copy" of Lolita.

>>1003203
>>1003203

Hah me too.

I do like OP's image though. What do you think is the purpose of the tattoo? To put emphasis on the fact she is a woman? That she is alive?

>>1002967

True beauty?

>>1004145
The point of this thread is that using quotation marks for emphasis is never a good idea.

But for her it was a good idea.

66? 99?

I don't get it.

>>1004209 here

Oh nevermind. 69. I get it. That's retarded.

>>1004145

>What do you think is the purpose of the tattoo?
Her self is falsified by outsiders who excerpt certain aspects of her identity while ignoring others in their efforts to understand her. She knows herself as a totality; others only know parts of her--in effect a caricature. This is inevitable.

Quotations are inherently deceptive because they always leave something out.

>>1004231
We all know she just that they fucking looked cool bro.

>>1004231
>>1004231
>>1004231

Woah.

>>1004183

So where did we get air quotes from then?

>>1004214
Please tell me you're a troll..

God, /lit/ is fucking stupid

>>1004231
The purpose is to let people know that she got a shitty tattoo AND IS TOO EDGY TO CARE.

the tattoo is pretty cool. rest of this stuff is not.

fucked up quotes. fucked up quotes everywhere

>>1004316
Air quotes aren't used for emphasis. They're used to indicate that a term is not the speaker's own but one used by some third party, either in an effort to distance oneself from it or indicate disagreement with it or whatever.

>>1003035

If that was done to emphasize the fact that he's a security guard, they don't realize the irony here, the way I saw it, I thought it meant he's not really a security guard, like every fucking fat "security guard" in the country.

TAO LIN THREAD?

>>1004646
go away, Tao.

>>1004646
Get the fuck out of here, tao.

'TAO LIN' THREAD?

>>1004650
goddamn you tao leave

>>1004653
'Tao Lin' is not in this thread but if he was he probably wouldn't 'leave'

"'"Tao Lin?"' 'asked' Tao 'ironically' as he read the 'thread' about '"scare" quotes'."

>>1004662
'yes'