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“Academic writers too easily become addicted to the use of quotation marks, whether to signify irony and sarcasm, to establish a certain lofty distance from the commonplace facts of everyday life, to imply that ordinary terms are being used in an unfamiliar and esoteric way, or perhaps also to confes the writer's inability to say anything in a straightforward way.”