Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Feb 2006 15:14 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones "A lot of people complain about the Firefox 'memory leak(s)'. All versions of Firefox no doubt leak memory - it is a common problem with software this complicated. We look to fix the issues where we can. David Baron and others have done a huge amount of excellent work in this area. What I think many people are talking about however with Firefox 1.5 is not really a memory leak at all. It is in fact a feature."
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RE[8]: title
by smitty on Wed 15th Feb 2006 23:19 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: title"
smitty
Member since:
2005-10-13

OK, I am prepared to admit I overreacted a bit and this will be my last post on the subject.

Quote marks can indicate two things: sarcasm, or, more likely, well, quoted text.

Is it actually proper English to quote a single word from an article like that? If so, it's certainly misleading. Consider the following two sentences.

VP Cheney accidentally shot a man yesterday.
VP Cheney 'accidentally' shot a man yesterday.

I'm sure in his press release Cheney said 'accidentally' somewhere, but if you quote that in the headline it seems very sarcastic.

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RE[9]: title
by sappyvcv on Wed 15th Feb 2006 23:53 in reply to "RE[8]: title"
sappyvcv Member since:
2005-07-06

"Bush vows to bring 'Evil-Doers' to justice"

This one doesn't seem sarcastic, does it? Just emphasizing a term the object (Bush) used.

Edited 2006-02-15 23:55

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RE[10]: title
by abraxas on Thu 16th Feb 2006 14:18 in reply to "RE[9]: title"
abraxas Member since:
2005-07-07

It sounds sarcastic. Single quotes are commonly used for this type of denotation. Double quotes are more common to use for quoting a person. Even if it was double quoted, quoting one word is not only unnecessary but misleading.

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