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Sometimes, if I don't think a word/phrase completely deserves full "quotation marks", I will just use 'apostrophes'. Is it okay to do this, or does it infuriate the Grammar Nazis.
I alternate between the two, usually depending on whether I can be arsed to press the shift key or not.
I'm fairly sure either are perfectly acceptable.
I use finger quotes to harass my girlfriend because she is bad at blowjobs so afterwards I be like "Great job "sucking" my dick" and then she cries. Maybe apostraphes would be better
I thought apostrophes were for quotes and spoken word within a story, whereas inverted commas are used to denote ownership, emphasising a subject as well as the 'i' and 'o' in posted words, i.e. Peter replied "that's Fred's 'apostrophe' and you 'shouldn't' use it Willy nilly".
Quotation marks are only supposed to be used after an exact quote I think?
I use apostrophe's sometimes when the word(s) or phrase I am reciting is a variation of the original, but if I am directly reciting exactly what someone said then I'll use a comma and then quotation marks to be proper.
I agree, in technical writing anyway, in terms of referencing someone else's work or extract of their paper or book.
I was and still am terrible at spelling as I cannot read anything more than 3m distance due to nystagmas. Street signs, white and black boards impossible, so when learning to spell was by phonetics.
Here's one I don't get, does the closed apostrophe come before or after the fullstop?
Pretty normal I think. Some publishing companies will only use a single an apostrophe instead of quotation marks because it surprisingly saves on ink use.
Loads of people do this. I'll be honest and say I have no idea what the rule is as to when you're meant to use apostrophes and when you're meant to use quote marks; they seem to be interchangeable. I use " 90% of the time because I'm just so used to it :P
I use double apostrophes for quotation marks, no shifting needed and no one notices