I've got an author who is fretting because I have imposed double quotemarks throughout in place of his inconsistent efforts to distinguish between actual quotes (double quotemarks) and cases where quotemarks are used to indicate the distinctive treatment of a word (irony, discussing the word itself, etc. -- for which, single quotemarks).
I know that what I've done is right but his late night email is unnerving me.
I'm not wrong to use double quote marks for all of these cases, am I? I preserve the use of duoble and single quotemarks where practical, but in this case it was not practical
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policywonk, are you around to reassure me about something?
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Threadwworm · 19/05/2008 23:07
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