There are multiple reasons for using quotations. Not only is aging not really a disease which could have a cure, even if it were there is not anything that does actually cure aging. In this example the reason for that is that there is no 'cure' to aging. To mean that the word 'cure' is being used in a way that is perhaps not technically correct. “The best cure-quote, unquote-for aging is slowing disease,” Daniel Kraft, the chair of I'm not really in agreement with some of the other responses so perhaps this is an informal or slang English that can be interpreted multiple ways. Originally (obviously) in speaking first written record is in a letter of e.e. So even though it might be more logical to say 'quote blah blah unquote' or some other variation, people tend to be speaking informally when they use it.Įtymology Online says this about 'unquote':ġ935, from un- (2) + quote (v.). It's typically used only in spoken language because in writing you can use actual quotes. ' It's all based in some sense on their quote unquote 'moral authority,' ' said Douglas Muzzio, a Baruch College public affairs professor That being said, he clearly has his eye on the, quote unquote, ' business plan ' Here are some quote unquote quotes from the Corpus of Contemporary American English: You will still age even if you have no diseases. This is meant to say that slowing disease doesn't really cure aging. However, your example seems to put it after what is being quoted. In English, people more commonly put the 'quote unquote' before the item that is to be quoted.

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