• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Am I the only one mildly annoyed by the fact that “Do not eat” is in quotations, like it’s silica gel’s motto or something?

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      6 hours ago

      No, you’re not. The internet is unsurprisingly full of people being annoyed with just that.

      The most valid explanation is that quotation marks used to mean something else. Before we had bold and italics and underscores, typographers would sometimes use quotation marks for emphasis. This kind of ancient mark-up language can be seen in advertising up until the 1950s or so. It is considered to be wrong now.

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        6 hours ago

        Unfortunately that’s no excuse we started using Silica gel in the 1950’s too (shockingly early I know) they should have stopped at iteration 1.