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Readers submit photos of oddly used quotation marks spotted primarily in public places. They are posted with snarky commentary from blogger and readers.
I’m a full time graduate student in rhetoric and a part time research assistant. The blog is my hobby.
I found unnecessary quotation marks amusing and thought it would be funny having a blog devoted to it. I guess other people think it’s pretty funny too.
I started it in summer ‘05, so about two years. I started getting more regular submissions about 6 months ago.
it varies, I would say an average day is around 500, a quiet day around 200. When the AP did a story about my blog I got something like 20,000
I have not yet made any money from my blog. I just added some ads, and they seem to be working alright. I don’t spend any money on the blog either, although it is taking more and more of my precious time!
People who like language and to play with language; people who like to laugh about everyday things like punctuation.
maybe an hour? I do it in dribs and drabs when I have a spare minute. I try and keep it efficient.
If you think my blog is funny you should subscribe. You’ll see a few amusing examples every day. It’s not for everybody but it seems to be for more people than I thought.
Choose a narrow, specific focus and keep your material as consistent as you can. Also, blog about something you really find interesting because probably by the time other people start to notice it you’ll be a little tired of it.
This blog can be visited at http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com
October 16th, 2007 - 5:49 pm
Hi, I wanted to correct one of my answers which is now out of date. These days I get between 2,000 and 4,000 visits a day.
I also, alas, end up putting probably about an hour total a day just into sorting through emails. It’s a tough life being popular….
October 24th, 2007 - 5:44 pm
Hello! I noticed that not only is your interview gaining momentum here, you are a blog of note on blogger. Congratulations!
-Morgy
October 24th, 2007 - 5:46 pm
Have you ever been to lower case l? It’s the same concept only people send in pics of signs people have made using all caps except for the l’s. Anyway — I have a pic for you. I’ll try to submit it later this week. The wacky Game and Parks division around here has some strange uses for quotations marks.
Haha.
-Morgy
October 27th, 2007 - 4:54 am
This may sound very strange to anybody reading but I am 13 years old and you may say I’m very gullible. If I had to say it myself, I would agree that I AM very gullible indeed. After reading this interesting yet funny blog I find myself now looking around for any unneeded (if i spelt that correctly!) quotation marks. I have noticed this before and I was thinking the same thing you thought for the first (or was it the second) picture. Was it a secret note to all of the cult members that came into this certain shop? I don’t know. But it did seem very suspicious to me, but again, me only being 13 hardly makes my silly little opinion important and I hardly should be getting involved in “adult conversation”, as my father never forgets to tell me. Notice my use of quotation marks and the neccessary role they have in this sentence. I myself other use them for quotes that people have actually made personally or just when I find myself using them in a sarcastic way as if to say I think that this certain fact is very untrue and unjust as above. Adult conversation my back foot!
and I would very much like to travel and look out for and make note of all these suspicious signs and notes everywhere. America seems to be full of them… not in a bad way though.
Anyway, have a good day yall! (And no I’m not from Tennesse, Texas, or even America. England rules!) Have fun travelling and all your friends, ’cause the farthest place I’ve been is Cyprus…
- Rebekah aka Hokori (Japan also rules!)
October 27th, 2007 - 2:38 pm
Hi Bethany,
You do have a great blog — the “misuse” of quotation marks has never been so much fun.
-k
October 30th, 2007 - 6:25 pm
Yours is my new favorite blog. The misuse of punctuation in general has always been amusing to me- and I have a hard time making myself not point out errors. Having said that, I do not claim to not make any!
And- I vote for you…all the time! Are you going to share that laser? Just kidding