> Why is it that quotation marks are now used to denote stressing a word or phrase, such as the following:
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> Buy a ComfortRest matress, and get a really "good" night's sleep!
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> Quotation marks used like that always say, to me, faceitiousness. Such as "Oh sure, you get a "good" night's sleep. Really. Honest. Would we lie? ::Snicker::"

Oh yes! I can't stand that; I can't believe I hadn't brought it up yet. There's even a website dedicated to that topic...see the link below.

> While we're on the subject of written manglings, what about... The use of apostrohes to pluralize? (Come in today, and get TWO mattress's for the price of ONE!)

Heh. You're right, that's truly annoying. And is there any excuse for it? I didn't think so either...

And on a similar topic, how about "it's"/"its" being confused? I've already mentioned the "Seafood At It's Best" sign near me a while back on the forum, and I've seen it in countless other places as well (even on _60 Minutes_!)... Nobody's immune to it, I guess.

-- codeman"I could rant for days about this stuff"38