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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009Quotes-unquotes sign
Hello, How do you call this gesture? You're saying a word and providing quotes-unquotes signs with the raised fingers of both hands as "surrounding" it. -- Thanks. Marius Hancu In our last episode, <0069b332-9673-40fa-878a-8053b8cb87a1@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, the lovely and talented Marius Hancu broadcast on alt.usage.english: > Hello, > How do you call this gesture? > You're saying a word and providing > quotes-unquotes signs with the raised fingers of both hands > as "surrounding" it. air quotes, informal and humorous.  SignatureLars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/> September 5801, 1993 179 days since Rick Warren prayed over Bush's third term. Obama: No hope, no change, more of the same. Yes, he can, but no, he won't. > In our last episode, > <0069b332-9673-40fa-878a-8053b8cb87a1@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > air quotes, informal and humorous. And, when used in written language, 'scare quotes'. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary >> In our last episode, >> <0069b332-9673-40fa-878a-8053b8cb87a1@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > And, when used in written language, 'scare quotes'. For some reason, I find the gesture intensely irritating, in a Ricky Gervais kind of way. SignatureMike Page Google me at port.ac.uk if you need to send an email. > How do you call this gesture? Very annoying. > > How do you call this gesture? > > Very annoying. May we "quote" you on that? SignatureRoland Hutchinson He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba," ... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy. --Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ ) |
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