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Re: While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:33:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Maggie Cambron writes:
> Say, Dave! I just heard an example another thing that makes no sense to me.
> It's when people who orally quote others say, "Quote, unquote" *before*
> launching into the actual quote. I'm only glad I heard it on the radio this
> time because when people do it in a conversation they make it worse by
> invariably holding up two fingers of each hand and wiggling them like insect
> antennae. Is this awful tendency universal?
The insect tendency indeed *is* universal, we do it here in .il too. I
encountered the "quote, unquote" saying with my history teacher, who did not
use th insect motion, and therefore confused me greatly, because she said it
very fast, and often... "quotenquote." In Israel, we say "in quotations"
before launching in the quote, so it's a leettle better. :-) You still can't
tell when the quote ends, though!
-Shiri
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