Blog Analysis

 http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

I was debating whether or not to analyse this blog as i know that it is not pro dominantly word based. But then i thought about what the meaning of the posts were and i liked the fact that they use language within different forms of media (pictures) to create humor. The main of the blog is about people using ''quotation'' marks where they shouldn't (hence the url) . Quotation marks are a type of punctuation that is mainly used when there is direct speech or a literal name or title. They can also be used to express irony or a word that has maybe 2 meanings. Aswell as this they are to emphasize specific phrases or words within a sentence (although, as you can see here, most people use them in an incorrect manner). By using punctuation marks in the wrong way you are essentially making the words within them sound more sarcastic than they should do. For example, in the picture above the quoted word is ''once''. This makes the person reading it wonder whether they have to ring it once or lots of times? And also makes the person that put it there sound slightly sarcastic. I like this blog as i enjoy how it points out the mistakes in peoples language but makes them humorous at the same time.