Quotation marks seem to have been transmogrified into { and }
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040319.html
(By the way, just to get it out of the way, “Eskimo” does not mean “eaters of raw meat”, it means “snowshoe weavers”.)
Has there been a remarkably quick fix or has JWK been into the fermented seal oil again?
I see quotation marks. (I also see dead people, but they’re not Eskimo, so that’s not relevant here.)
Most places do have correct quotes, but the penultimate sentence of the third bulleted paragraph contains the strange curly brackets. I agree that they were probably intended to be quotation marks.
They’re also in the first paragraph, around the quote from the Tupperware executive.
I came in here just to see what was up with them.