For all the grown-up kids out there who didn’t particularly enjoy grammar classes, let’s have a quick reminder what quotation marks are, since it will be relevant to get the distorted and alternate meanings shared in this post.
So, these punctuation marks are used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. You want to use quotation marks with direct quotes, with titles of certain works, to imply alternate meanings, and to write words as words.
There are cases when quotation marks are used not for actual quotes, but rather to carry a connotation of sarcasm, a tongue-in-cheek admission that the thing in quotes isn’t actually what it’s said to be. When that happens, things take a weird turn.
Scroll down below and see how suspiciously used quotes look and sound in practice. Now, although we cannot really tell whether the authors of these misused quotes used them deliberately or it happened by accident, we cannot deny the entertainment of it all. Psst! More misused quotes can be found in Bored Panda‘s previous feature right here.
#1 How Touching
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#2 Are You Implying It Was Me Who Poop In The Grass?
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#3 Threatening Church
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#4 The What Sauce?
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#5 I Don’t Find This Very Reassuring
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#6 Alleged “Filmmaker”
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#7 “Heroes”
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#8 He Was Definitely Loved
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#9 The Cop Cars In Orange Country Florida All Say Making A Difference In Comic Sans With Useless Quotation Marks. Makes It Seem Like They Aren’t Making A Difference
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#10 Vaguely Threatening Church
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#11 The Place You Go When You Need A Negative Test
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#12 This Sign At A Hotel I Stayed In Last Night
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#13 It’s There To Fool The Horses
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#14 Thanks, I Hate The Magic Stool Bus
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#15 This Massage Parlor Is A Little Sus
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#16 When You Find Out That You’re Adopted
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#17 Miami-Dade Police At Their Best
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#18 So What Kind Of Milk Are We Talking, Exactly?
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#19 “Husband”
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#20 Appropriate Suspicious Quotes
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#21 Just Saw This In A McDonald’s
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#22 I Don’t Understand What They Were Trying To Accomplish With The Quotes
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#23 The Pharmacy Thinks I’m Fueling Someone’s Drug Habit
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#24 I Don’t Think I Want To Know What This Means
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#25 I’ve Said It Before And I’ll Say It Again: Quotation Marks Are Not For Emphasis
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#26 No Wonder It’s So Small
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#27 Quietly Move My Cat Indoors
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#28 What Kind Of Hotel Is This?
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#29 This Is Just Suspicious All Around
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#30 I “Love” My “Husband” Dearly
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#31 I Think I’ll Pass
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#32 “Jesus”
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#33 Is “Dipping Powder” Code For Coke?
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#34 Is It Tho? As Seen Heading North On I-95 In Boca Raton, FL Yesterday
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#35 “Birds”
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#36 Oh No
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#37 Spotted At A Restaurant In Town
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#38 So The Food Isn’t Fresh Then, Got It
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#39 I Don’t Think I Want To Bring My Dog Here
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#40 “Our” Community
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#41 Something Tells Me I’m Not Going To Get A Prize Every Time
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#42 Found This Subtle Threat In Pakistan
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#43 I Require The “Sauce”
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#44 “Guitar Lessons”
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#45 My Cousin Got This For His 18th Birthday
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#46 Found At My Local “Mall Sword Store”
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#47 Patient Survey
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#48 Now That’s A Clever Slogan
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#49 “Duck”
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#50 Sure
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