No, you’re not. The internet is unsurprisingly full of people being annoyed with just that.
The most valid explanation is that quotation marks used to mean something else. Before we had bold and italics and underscores, typographers would sometimes use quotation marks for emphasis. This kind of ancient mark-up language can be seen in advertising up until the 1950s or so. It is considered to be wrong now.
Am I the only one mildly annoyed by the fact that “Do not eat” is in quotations, like it’s silica gel’s motto or something?
No, you’re not. The internet is unsurprisingly full of people being annoyed with just that.
The most valid explanation is that quotation marks used to mean something else. Before we had bold and italics and underscores, typographers would sometimes use quotation marks for emphasis. This kind of ancient mark-up language can be seen in advertising up until the 1950s or so. It is considered to be wrong now.
Unfortunately that’s no excuse we started using Silica gel in the 1950’s too (shockingly early I know) they should have stopped at iteration 1.
Maybe this is the 1st. iteration of design, still being copied because nobody bothers making a new design.
People also still say “hello” when they answer the telephone. That’s even older.
It’s to demonstrate that they have to say it, but they don’t really mean it.
I accept this explanation.
wink wink nudge nudge