Finger Quoting

On 10 Dec 2003 14:18:49 GMT, Matt (Email Removed) wrote, in part:
[nq:1]When a speaker wishes to indicate the use of quotation marks, he often twinkles two fingers on each hand a few times.[/nq]
Does he? You make it sound to me like the fingers are moved independently. I've always seen them go up and down (or just down) in unison. They start nearly extended and are bent, then possibly unbe

[nq:1]On 10 Dec 2003 14:18:49 GMT, Matt wrote, in part:[/nq]
[nq:2]When a speaker wishes to indicate the use of quotation marks, he often twinkles two fingers on each hand a few times.[/nq]
[nq:1]Does he? You make it sound to me like the fingers are moved independently. I've always seen them go up ... unison. They start nearly extended and are bent, then possibly unbent again, and then per

[nq:2]On 10 Dec 2003 14:18:49 GMT, Matt wrote, in part: ... unbent again, and then perhaps the process is repeated once.[/nq]
[nq:1]The term air quotes has been recorded in print since the late eightieth, but the gesture itself, used ... finger with the forefinger perhaps represents double quotation marks, while use of the forefinger alone may represent single quotation marks.[/nq]
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While it was 10/12/03 2:18 pm throughout the UK, DOYLE60 sprinkled little black dots on a white screen, and they fell thus:
[nq:1]When a speaker wishes to indicate the use of quotation marks, he often twinkles two fingers on each hand a few times. In Britain, do they twinkle just one finger on each hand? Pondering...[/nq]
Not that I know of.
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[nq:1]The NBC host Matt Lauer asks a guest, "What do people in Great Britain think about this journalist, or *quote-unquote*, journalist?"[/nq]
Unquote? Shouldn't that be ENDquote?

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[nq:1]while use of the forefinger alone may represent single quotation marks. From The Oxford Dictionary of New Words (1998)[/nq]
I have never seen anyone signal the single quotes. Has anyone?

Matt

[nq:2]The NBC host Matt Lauer asks a guest, "What do people in Great Britain think about this journalist, or *quote-unquote*, journalist?"[/nq]
[nq:1]Unquote? Shouldn't that be ENDquote?[/nq]
Who are you, Nero Wolfe?
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[nq:1]GenJerDan wrote, in part:(responding to the following:)[/nq]
[nq:2]Unquote? Shouldn't that be ENDquote?[/nq]
[nq:1]Who are you, Nero Wolfe?[/nq]
Hmm. I would have written "Who are you? Nero Wolfe?"
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The difference lies in whether or not you want to imply that you had the name in mind when you started asking the question.

Matti

[nq:2](responding to the following:) Hmm. I would have written "Who are you? Nero Wolfe?"[/nq]
[nq:1]The difference lies in whether or not you want to imply that you had the name in mind when you started asking the question.[/nq]
True. I made the more natural (to me) assumption that he was not addressing Nero.

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