ext_40544 ([identity profile] lproven.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] major_clanger 2004-07-21 08:43 am (UTC)

[Deadpan] We do. It's the little air quote thing some people do, which in more educated times was conveyed with mere intonation and stress - and it crossed language barriers, tho' not alphabetic ones - although I find it very interesting that punctuation is so useful that even non-alphabetic languages suchg as Chinese and Japanese are freely adopting it today.

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