teaching b/log: COMM 337: Quote w/in quote w/in quote

Monday, December 03, 2007

COMM 337: Quote w/in quote w/in quote

Posted to my mass communications blogs. --pe

The CNN story was headlined "Why bad kissers don't get to second base." Cute enough. Worth a look. But what I really liked about it was the punctuation in the last 'graph! Take a look:

"The best kisses are always the ones that happen accidentally," observes New York City resident Benjamin Kayne, 25, a digital media sales director. "(Planned kisses) are just tedious, and I'm sitting there thinking, 'Is this over yet? The commercial is over and I'm missing "CSI".' "

That's a quote within a quote within a quote. That you don't see every day.

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I'm a retired teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (now Benedictine University Springfield), a volunteer interpreter and amateur musician at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site and an oral history editor and docent at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. I maintain two blogs. Hogfiddle has notes and instructional material for my workshops on Appalachian dulcimers - aka "hogfiddles" - as well as notes on folklore and cultural studies; folk hymnody; and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my humanities classes at SCI to Hogfiddle. On my other blog, The Mackerel Wrapper, I post assignments for my journalism students, as well as links and comment about newspapering and mass communications.

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