[Forum] RE: Punctuation Relative to Scare Quotes

I thought I would resuscitate this thread to see if anyone has any further thoughts on this issue. Does anyone else think that a period after a single word in scare quotes looks odd? A ball hit between outfielders is known as a "gapper."

[Forum] RE: scare quotes

I've no problem with the term; my question was simply about the scare quotes.

[Forum] RE: scare quotes

In that case, don't use the scare quotes other than the first time. It would be overkill for sure.

[Forum] RE: Use of single quotation marks specifically for scare quotes

Roisin: If they are so convinced it's justified, ask them to document it. That should teach them a valuable research lesson! If they can, in fact, find where it is written, please come back and let us know. Maybe it is in their universities' style guides. While that might be enough for them to use

[Forum] scare quotes

When scare quotes are used legitimately around a word or term, must they be repeated each time that word or term is used in that same context, or should they be used only on first mention? I think (and hope) it's the latter, but I'm not 100% sure, and nothing in CMoS seems to address this question.

[Forum] RE: scare quotes

[quote='Lingordon' pid='38648' dateline='1562780078'] Thank you. My instinct as well. It's a 200+ page book, and since the words/terms used are the [i]subject [/i]of the book, they will be used dozens of times. [/quote] Consider adding a brief note in order to explain the lack of subsequent

[Forum] Punctuation Relative to Scare Quotes

Do typical punctuation placement rules relative to quotation marks apply in the same way to scare quotes?

[Forum] RE: scare quotes

[quote='Lingordon' pid='30472' dateline='1474586177'] My author is describing something as being the colour of a "smiley face." I would prefer to drop the scare quotes. Are they necessary? [/quote] No. [i]Smiley face[/i] has [url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smiley%20face]its ow

[Forum] RE: scare quotes

Does the author mean yellow? It's a little odd. Since my smiley faces are just characters :-) And the ones my phone gives me are an ugly green. Perhaps s/he means the ones gmail and facebook both pop up with. But you might tell your author that smiley faces are not universally one color or anoth

[Forum] RE: Hyphens or Quotes for this Phrase?

Chuckle. Scare quotes have that effect upon a person.