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Witty Banter said:
Any blind reading can see for each of us it's a lot, but you are the one in denial about not being a fellow social retard. You are the one getting looks in the streets.
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Go set up your Weetbix, you are an even worse version of yourself when you're hungry.
 
Trala said:
Go set up your Weetbix, you are an even worse version of yourself when you're hungry.
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I can just feel your anticipation. There is a milk crisis going on and may require Trala like levels of mindful overcoming of adversity, by me going to the shops and buying some. In all likelihood I'll just have lunch for breakfast and breakfast Weetbix a la totes amazeballs for lunch. As such, a delay is likely. I might even get a bogan tattoo to denote my inner reflective strength for my achievement in all around overcoming.
 
Witty Banter said:
I can just feel your anticipation. There is a milk crisis going on and may require Trala like levels of mindful overcoming of adversity, by me going to the shops and buying some. In all likelihood I'll just have lunch for breakfast and breakfast Weetbix a la totes amazeballs for lunch. As such, a delay is likely. I might even get a bogan tattoo to denote my inner reflective strength for my achievement in all around overcoming.
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Sounds like a plan. Hey, when you're finished, you might want to head over to the OT Thread. You need to clean up aisle 5 and make a cyber citizens arrest. Anti Gretel talked dirty and jizzed everywhere.
 
Witty Banter said:
Don't stop chortling Trala.

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3737515.htm
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Witty Banter said:
Too bad he is wrong, and media agencies do use single quotes informally, in the same way that Trala had deliberately misquoted and just plain made up Bluefin quotes.
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Witty Banter said:
You might be too lazy, but Consuela can read it and update himself.
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:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

I am CHORTLING!

Did you even read the article or my original reply? I know you most certainly didn't read the comments on that article because they make you look like a fool.

Where did I say you can't use single quotation marks for for made-up quotes? I very clearly said you can use either because neither is technically correct because you should only use quotation marks for real quotes because they're actually quotes! Not to mention I also said you can use quotation marks for emphasis, which is what newspapers do very often.

There is no hard and fast rule like you righteously implied in your first response to Trala. There's only conventions in English and so long as you're consistent in your use of single or double quotation marks you're OK. So if you want to use double quotation marks for real quotes and single quotation marks for made-up quotes or if you want to do the reverse you're perfectly valid in doing so, even though you really shouldn't be putting made-up quotes in quotation marks and no purist would.

Your bloody article says as much because it's all about how single quotation marks mean something completely different in the media to what it does in the rest of the publishing world, that is, media agencies use it for emphasis and paraphrasing which isn't normal or the rule like you keep implying.

Let me finish with a few quotes from the article and comments.

Australian Press Council said:
The headline of the article put ‘lectured’ in single inverted commas, which is often used by newspapers to imply a paraphrase rather than a quotation. This usage is by no means standard
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Russell in the comments said:
Be they single or double, they are called Quotation Marks and indicate something is being Quoted. The fact that journalists use them to paraphrase or misinterpret is what annoys those of us who therefore refuse to buy the story because we can't trust the jerk who wrote it. How about some Honesty in Reporting, hey?
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Gordon in the comments said:
So what is it when someone does that annoying thing with their (double) fingers that means "cliché enclosed". I fact what did I do just then? Cliché enclosed is not a quotation, I just made it up, but the "" seemed right.
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Philip Powell in the comments said:
I think you've missed the point on the single-quotes issue. Using single quotes instead of double quotes in headlines is merely a universal stylistic subeditorial device to keep headlines uncluttered and to help make them fit, just as full stops in heads were dropped many decades ago. Yes, they often paraphrase the original words or text, but that's what headlines are supposed to do, sum up in as few words as possible what the report is all about.
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David in the comments said:
Single quotation marks' don't really mean a quote, but "double" ones do? Is this a little universe inhabited by certain newspapers that the rest of the publishing world does not know exists? Any writer, style editor or any undergraduate university student who has been paying any attention in class would recognise this as a furphy.

There is NO difference in meaning between a single quotation mark and a double quotation marks. The only difference is of style: British book publishers tend to prefer single quotation marks, with double marks inside if a quote includes a quote; while Americans tend to prefer double marks, with single marks inside as above.
If it's not a direct quotation, it doesn't go inside quotation marks, single, double or triple.
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Campbell in the comments said:
Using single quote marks as half-a-quote for paraphrases is an old journalistic chestnut to excuse misquoting and does not deserve the time of day. Use single quote marks in heads, double in the body copy. Double for quotes, single for quotes within quotes (generally the opposite in British and Australian book publishing). I admit to being a dinosaur from days when newspaper had real, live sub-editors, but have a look at any old HWT Style Book.
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Pitty your edit window has closed for you to update yourself.

xo
 
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