Over at Harry's Place someone in the comments (on the post about Quotation Marks) mentions people who do quotation marks while they're talking; usually, in my considerable experience, this is accompanied by tar-thick sarcasm and some kind of not-very-clever-but-thinks-it-is comment.
I'm sorry to say I was a teenager who did that the whole time. My only defence is this: Stephen Fry did it on tv, so I thought it was cool. I also hated the guts of most people I had to talk to, so knowing it pissed them off was fine by me. However, I can now see that this is the behaviour of a wanker. On the positive side, I don't think I've done it since 1994 so I've been clean for a while now.
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Not guilty, I'm afraid. I do have many annoying habits, but this isn't one of them.
I think I do gesticulate a fair bit whilst in full flow however.
Ha! Love your humour. Er - I'm afraid I sometimes still do it when speaking! Well, what do you expect, with the "Times Style Guide" and others - ooops - used them! - telling us to put titles, etc., in italics instead? A girl gets withdrawal symptoms....
I think it depends on how they do them - as a throw-away gesture it's not too bad. It's the people that do it in a "look at me I'm doing quotation marks" way that bug me.
Matt, and WL, I'm sure you aren't included. I on the other hand, definitely was in the bracket of people who do it in a "look at me" way!!
Hence the need for a full and frank confession.
What happened in 1994 to stop you?
Guilty, but only in the 'throw-away manner' as mentioned by matt above. However, I don't remember the last time I did that.
1994 - I realised I was behaving like a tosser and that no-one liked me!
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