Re: Example of English Usage; Never mind the politics. Part II.

On 2009-08-26, Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:

msb@xxxxxxx (Mark Brader) writes:

And then, of course, today we have are all those GUI-based programs
like editors and web browsers that have the function of "printing"
the current display content into a file...

If you're going to put scare quotes around "printing", shouldn't you
put them around "file", too?


Definitely around "content"!


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....the reason why so many professional artists drink a lot is not
necessarily very much to do with the artistic temperament, etc. It is
simply that they can afford to, because they can normally take a large
part of a day off to deal with the ravages. [Amis _On Drink_]
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