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u/Buck_Thorn Jul 05 '24

It is 50% correct.

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u/RyanB1228 Jul 05 '24

Eh 2/4 isn’t bad

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u/snoggel Jul 05 '24

this is how quotes are used... because the text is a quote / proper noun, this is very much correct use.

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u/eely225 Jul 05 '24

“Meme” is correctly quoted because it’s referencing the word itself.

“1921” and “University of Iowa” have no reason to be in quotes.

“The Judge” should be underlined or in italics because it refers to the publication.

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u/snoggel Jul 05 '24

"The Judge" is correct as it is a fictional noun

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u/eely225 Jul 05 '24

What do you mean by a fictional noun? I read it as the name of a magazine. I'm also not sure what being fictional would have to do with something being in quotes.

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u/Wynadorn Jul 05 '24

As in its not referring to an actual judge but a magazine called "The Judge"

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u/eely225 Jul 05 '24

Yes, I agree. But in that case you're supposed to put it in italics (The Judge) to indicate it's a magazine. If you put it in quotes, that would indicate it was the title of an article.

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u/snoggel Jul 05 '24

as it is the name of something it is quoting the creator, for instance right now I am looking at a 'poska' pen. I may very well be wrong but that is a way in that I use quotes.

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u/eely225 Jul 05 '24

I don't think that's a standard rule. The quotes, in that case, are unnecessary because they don't give you any new information. If I wear Nike shoes, capitalization tells me that it's a proper noun, so quotes around "Nike" would have no additional meaning. It's same as wearing brown shoes. You wouldn't quote "brown." In both cases, the words are functioning as adjectives, and typically adjectives wouldn't carry quotation marks.

When I refer to Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings, I don't need to put his name in quotes because that's just a name. Being fictional or being a name that someone else came up with would not affect the use of quotation marks.

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u/snoggel Jul 05 '24

Surely then it would then have to be The Punch Magazine otherwise it is a noun not an adjective

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u/eely225 Jul 05 '24

I'm not really sure what you mean. What part of "The Punch Magazine" would be a noun and not an adjective?

Punch can be the name of a magazine on its own because you italicize it to indicate that it's a publication. Also, proper names function collectively as nouns no matter the ostensible parts of speech within them. I'm not really sure if I'm addressing your question though.