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- title: "annotation of miscellany № 49: introducing the quasiquote – shady characters"
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- category: responses
- tags: annotation
- replyto: "https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/06/miscellany-49-quasiquote/"
- date: "2021-12-04T06:56:08.036286+00:00"
- hypothesislink: "https://hyp.is/Qc8hmFTPEey7e_8PlKRpLg/shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/06/miscellany-49-quasiquote/"
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- > ...erately combine characters. <em>“The interrobang was easily made with a back-space and over-type”, as Ned told me via email, which is remarkable in itself. But this quirk of typewriter operation also allowed the construction of the fabled quasiquote, where a hyphen and quotation mark were overstruck to produce something like "this", or 'this', and which encapsulated an abbreviated or [paraphrased](#paraphrasis) quotation rather a verbatim report of the speaker’s words.</em>
- Ned’s explanation of the qua...
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- I have wanted just this punctuation mark! Lapsing into italics doesn't give quite the right meaning, since it overlaps with fictional *thoughts* and therefore tends to impute intent.
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