Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet

From	MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet
Date	2016-04-26 12:33 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2016/04/11 5:59 AM, dorayme wrote:
> Why do people exaggerate everything that is said?

You used a comparative and another comparison can be made.

> Why go to extremes
> on everything?

Letting quotation marks remain as quotation marks is not an extreme. 
Banishing them because they're not on (deficient) typewriters is just silly.
-- 
Malcolm

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Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-11 02:02 -0400
  Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-04-11 19:59 +1000
    Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet android <here@there.was> - 2016-04-11 12:54 +0200
    Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2016-04-11 19:48 -0700
      Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-04-13 19:52 +1000
    Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 12:33 -0400
      Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-04-27 07:24 +1000
  Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-04-11 16:22 +0000
    Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet android <here@there.was> - 2016-04-11 19:09 +0200
      Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-04-12 15:26 +0000
        Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet android <here@there.was> - 2016-04-12 18:27 +0200
          Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-04-13 08:54 +0200
            Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet android <here@there.was> - 2016-04-13 11:34 +0200
              Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-24 23:28 +0200
          Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-04-13 15:21 +0000
            Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet android <here@there.was> - 2016-04-13 17:57 +0200
            Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 12:44 -0400
        Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-24 23:27 +0200
          Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 12:53 -0400
            Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-26 23:28 +0200
              Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 21:55 -0400
        Childraising (was: Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet) befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2016-04-25 10:14 +0200
        Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 12:41 -0400
          Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-04-26 23:32 +0200
            Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 21:58 -0400
    Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2016-04-26 12:36 -0400
      Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-04-27 15:42 +0000

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