6.15.2012

scare quotes “” .. social origins of the idea


[from     the Loss Lieder]


I doubt you could, in the time it took him to turn, a near acquaintance, but fervor, drencher where they walked this mud's got a lot of secrets!  only fair that malfeasances are reflected at the back of the record; he crosses a freshet and maintains innocence near that famed overspread a crying held to wildernesses; then there was a quiet fame asked by the slowly performance, I mean he was a number-cruncher and fabled by the next imposters sited in a slumber-duster; all the time it took to pester a gob of americana prose, to tape all these magnifications (and, still we shrink); pandect in clay to harass my betters, a new thinking rattled by trivial; he pirouetted out of the sentence and into the landscape, managed by regret; this is the one agreement I signed:  namely, a sidestep; when they returned with the official documents, slanted roving mild as when gone……..supplication, now in ritual motions:  that we pure products of  monopoly go sad; you had to live there to feel the millennial gabble foisted across blank siege walls harpo-happy;  the outermost fling is now I amount to something, a sack of potatoes where they calculated absolute class powder, wallop'd good like a mammoth entirety, and if I slander, is the magnification ready?  it's a solecism,  keeping live the place where I fell and the grimace worth 10 hours' pay!  all the accolades go to the feeble, now the alternatives are offered you (as you well know)  in a table of random numbers; that's just frippery, yes and pretty consistent too; if you do it with "elan" the mind sinks with a swifter kick than pasquinade and remote, and so this can be,  ... the overawed shape and the regulators.

1 comment:

  1. what i am looking for now is WHO coined the term? name? and what year?
    ANd what does the word SCARE mean here in SCARE QUOTE, why SCARE?

    any guess? maybe Anu can do a story on this mystery?

    DAN BLOOM in Taiwan

    On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:05 AM, wrote:
    > ------------------------------------------
    > From: Anu Garg
    > To: ericshackle@bigpond.com;
    > Subject: Re: FW: anybody want to tackle OREGINS of "scare quote" as newsroom
    > term? i got smoking gun here, ask me who told me this! top lexiogrpaher!
    > Hi Eric,
    > WIkipedia has a fairly detailed discussion:
    > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
    > Best,
    > Anu
    > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:37 PM, wrote:
    >> Hi Anu. Can you answer Dan Bloom's question? Dan is an American
    >> journalist living in Taiwan.
    >>
    >> Cheers, Eric.
    >>
    >>
    >> ------------------------------------------
    >> From: Dan Bloom
    >> To: danbloom@gmail.com;
    >> Subject: anybody want to tackle OREGINS of "scare quote" as newsroom term?
    >> i
    >> got smoking gun here, ask me who told me this! top lexiogrpaher!
    >> anybody want to tackle OREGINS of "scare quote" as newsroom term? i
    >> got smoking gun here, ask me who told me this! top lexiogrpaher!
    >> On Jun 18, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Dan Bloom wrote:
    >> > DANNY AKS
    >> > ANY IDEA WHO COINED THE TERM ......''SCARE QUOTES''..... AND WHY AND
    >> WHEN?
    >> EXPERT AT STANFORD TELLS ME
    >> OED2 draft addition Sept. 2004 has it from 1956; the first two cites
    >> are both from philosophers:
    >> 1956 Mind 65 3 The ?scare-quotes? are mine; Aristotle is not
    >> overtly discussing the expression ?whichever happens?.
    >> 1960 P. T. Geach in M. Brand Nature of Human Action (1970) 119
    >> Someone..might use ?happy?, in scare-quotes so to say, to mean ?what
    >> most people count happy, that is rich?.
    >> (but that doesn't tell you who coined it -- and it could have been a
    >> translation from another language, like German)

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