Thursday, January 24, 2013

Punctuation fail


[Low-hanging fruit, before and after.]

A new Microsoft ad for Internet Explorer gets it wrong: an apostrophe, not a left quotation mark, should precede 90s. What makes the mistake interesting to me is that such mistakes often occur with word-processing, in the ’90s and today.

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[I made the correction using the free Mac app Seashore.]

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