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winner: most gratuitous use of quotation marks

From Donald Trump, via my junk mail today:

Please be my personal guest to hear my real story… and also be trained by “4″ self-made multi-millionare experts.

Yes. He puts quotes around “4″. (He also puts quotes around “0″ later, though relatively speaking that use almost makes sense.) Kudos to Mr. Trump for a new low in the sport of quotation mark abuse.

[If any Flickr users want to put this into the awesome quotation mark abuse pool, feel free; the picture is here.]

Comments closed — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, March 1, 2007, at 1:29 pm by Luis. Filed in New York, forfacebook, misc..

4 Comments

  1. adakkak

    maybe he is used to LaTeX?

    Posted on 01-Mar-07 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
  2. Mark Gordon

    Maybe he means to use it as a string literal?

    Posted on 01-Mar-07 at 2:42 pm | Permalink
  3. Ben FrantzDale

    Maybe it’s supposed to be itallicized in wikitext?

    Posted on 01-Mar-07 at 3:30 pm | Permalink
  4. leo

    At the conference, you will learn to use quotation marks the Trump way.

    Posted on 01-Mar-07 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

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  1. Gregarius on 02-Mar-07 at 12:39 pm

    links from Technorati Luis Villa: winner: most gratuitous use of quotation marks