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Quoting past and present by Amanda Fincher
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Quoting past and present by AMANDA FINCHER
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Article Posted: 07/02/2013 |
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illustrious people say celebrated things. When people repeat their sayings, that's a quotation, also known as a quote. Quotes can be funny or tragic, enlightened or goofy. Speech writers tighten speeches to the point where the words are memorable. Many quotes are taken from speeches, announcements, and decrees. Sometimes the speakers were great orators born with the ability to speak on without the help of writers. Other times, quotes are derived from humbler sources: from pop culture, friends, misheard conversations, and offhand remarks. Quotes are not necessarily highbrow. Owing to different languages and different worldviews, quotes are different the world over. What's notable to one group of people might not be memorable to another. What's more, since only the champions write history, lower groups often do not have a chance to have their quotes laid in stone. Instead, the winners' words are spoken as truth and quoted in the history books. Quotes are offset by grammatical marks known as quotation marks. Some quotation marks are curly, while others are straight. Many times, computer fonts and fixed-width fonts--that is, fonts in which each letter and character are the same width regardless of type--tend to have straight quotation marks. Those interested in letter forms often appreciate the value of a swirling, curly quotation mark. Depending on the language, quotation marks can even be upright and facing downwards. German, for example, uses a different style of quotation mark than English. Quotes are the first things to go viral, and perhaps owing to this, quotes are far shared throughout the Internet. There are web sites devoted to collecting quotes. Image macros, a popular form of spreading ideas and graphics, have appeared on message boards and social networking sites. One recent trend is for quotes to be shared through image memes. A quote will be combined with an image of the originator or of something related to the context, and the quote itself will be embedded onto the image file. People collect these images like they would textual quotes, and then they share them through their friends groups. Pinterest is especially useful for sharing quotes, as it is a place where pictures and words spread and share quite a bit. The word "quote" can mean other things just beyond a spoken or written quotation. It has a variety of meanings in computer programming, for example. Quote has specific meanings in the financial world as well. For example, a price quote is an example price worked up before the rendering of a service. An insurance quote is the projected cost. Quotes define a price. A particularly imperative thing not to do is quote out of context. Because quotes are so easily shared, it's important not to twist people's words and make them say things that were not meant in the source. Quoting out of context is especially common in less honorable debates, and it can result in inaccuracies. Because quotes are usually just bits of a gestalt and because context means everything, it's extremely simple to quote someone wrongly or even to attribute a quote to the wrong source. The author also writes articles about quotes.as
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