Editor ZBicyclist is on vacation, and taking a cue from comics that repeat old episodes is dipping back into the past: June 2021. This was originally posted by Winter Wallaby.
From dollarbill.
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Hmm, I might be hoping the quotes were properly-used scare-quotes: that is, hoping the freely dispensed substance was some kind of milder fertilizer, and not actual manure.
A related matter is on my pet-peeves list: people using air-quotes for some printed or written use of quotation marks, when not literally a gestural matter. That is, saying air-quotes in place of the better coinage, the expression scare-quotes.
True, the confusion has a legit starting place, namely that very often when someone makes that quotation-marks gesture in the air, what they are conveying is the attitude of irony or dubiety, that is, the attitude belonging to scare-quotes. So following on that, someone may associate that attitude so much with the action of making air-quotes that they may look at a written passage and say “Why is this author using air-quotes so much?” when the author surely wasn’t using air-quotes since they weren’t standing next to you, talking and gesturing. They may well have been using (written) scare-quotes.
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Hmm, I might be hoping the quotes were properly-used scare-quotes: that is, hoping the freely dispensed substance was some kind of milder fertilizer, and not actual manure.
A related matter is on my pet-peeves list: people using air-quotes for some printed or written use of quotation marks, when not literally a gestural matter. That is, saying air-quotes in place of the better coinage, the expression scare-quotes.
True, the confusion has a legit starting place, namely that very often when someone makes that quotation-marks gesture in the air, what they are conveying is the attitude of irony or dubiety, that is, the attitude belonging to scare-quotes. So following on that, someone may associate that attitude so much with the action of making air-quotes that they may look at a written passage and say “Why is this author using air-quotes so much?” when the author surely wasn’t using air-quotes since they weren’t standing next to you, talking and gesturing. They may well have been using (written) scare-quotes.
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I’d be worried about a substance that looks and smells like manure but isn’t.
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I mean, pretty straightforwards. He’s worried that the source of the “manure” is humans. (And thus it would be more accurately termed “nightsoil.”)
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“Like” for all three. (The “Like” button was working with Safari for a while, but today it doesn’t.)
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Worked for me with safari on my iPad.
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