Re: Where have all the speech marks gone?
- From: MC <copespaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 11:18:03 -0400
In article <gts9bo$kdd$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
billrigby@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Does anyone have any idea why, in modern novels, the practice of using<Bug-eyed-hobby-horse alert, ear-steaming level.> It's the pernicious
inverted commas (aka "quotes" or "speech marks") to denote direct
speech is dying out? I'm currently reading "God's Own Country" by
Ross Raisin, and jolly good it is too, but it's not the first
contemporary novel that I'm struggling with on account of having to
decode the text to work out when the speaking ends and the narrative
begins. Is it cost-cutting, or are inverted commas now inexplicably
uncool?
influence of designers: they hate punctuation and capital letters, which
seem entirely pointless to a bunch of illiterates. The mark of a culture
in which what you look like is more important than what you are.
Harrumphing right along with you.
--
"All of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
- Steve Martin
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