2004-03-19
Another great "scare quote" example
Someone 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
Someone 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...