Orphan quotes are quotation marks that people habitually use to surround a word or sometimes two. More recently they’ve broken out of the written sphere, becoming air quotes.
Entries Tagged as ‘print’
May 25, 2009
How much for that memory?
$60
That’s how much a memory costs at Liberty High School, outside Dallas. Well, a package of memories. Pictures and words on paper and bound between two hard covers.
A yearbook. And last week, an article by Jessica Meyers in the Dallas Morning News pointed to the yearbook as another victim of the decline of print. It [...]
May 17, 2009
Which technology would you like to disappear?
There’s both good and bad news in the realm of communications.
This week, voice mail came in for castigation from Slate’s Farhad Manjoo. Everyone should enjoy this one. He succinctly summarized voice mail’s every shortcoming and held out hope for a better, saner world –
“If the voice-mail leavers in your life are anything like those in [...]
