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Mar. 19th, 2004
Another great "scare quote" example
Mar. 19th, 2004 04:46 pmSomeone out there recently was complaining about the proliferation of "extraneous" "quotes" "around" "all" "sorts" "of" "words".
Just got a great one from an automated email response system:
Thank you for your email. Your email has been marked "high priority" and a Customer Care Representative will respond promptly.
Well, I suppose that's sort of reasonable, as if they mark all messages high priority automatically, the label must be pretty meaningless...
Just got a great one from an automated email response system:
Thank you for your email. Your email has been marked "high priority" and a Customer Care Representative will respond promptly.
Well, I suppose that's sort of reasonable, as if they mark all messages high priority automatically, the label must be pretty meaningless...
Another great "scare quote" example
Mar. 19th, 2004 04:46 pmSomeone out there recently was complaining about the proliferation of "extraneous" "quotes" "around" "all" "sorts" "of" "words".
Just got a great one from an automated email response system:
Thank you for your email. Your email has been marked "high priority" and a Customer Care Representative will respond promptly.
Well, I suppose that's sort of reasonable, as if they mark all messages high priority automatically, the label must be pretty meaningless...
Just got a great one from an automated email response system:
Thank you for your email. Your email has been marked "high priority" and a Customer Care Representative will respond promptly.
Well, I suppose that's sort of reasonable, as if they mark all messages high priority automatically, the label must be pretty meaningless...