# Typographic problem in Eskimo/Tupperware column

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typographic-problem-in-eskimo-tupperware-column/235244>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 19, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typographic-problem-in-eskimo-tupperware-column/235244 "2004-03-19T17:46:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typographic-problem-in-eskimo-tupperware-column/235244/1 "2004-03-19T17:46:03Z")

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Quotation marks seem to have been transmogrified into { and }

[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040319.html](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”.)

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typographic-problem-in-eskimo-tupperware-column/235244/2 "2004-03-19T18:13:29Z")

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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.)

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**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typographic-problem-in-eskimo-tupperware-column/235244/3 "2004-03-19T18:37:49Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typographic-problem-in-eskimo-tupperware-column/235244/4 "2004-03-19T18:59:21Z")

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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.