Subject: Re: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:49:13 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Shame on us for failing to write good expressive English for fear of
> quotes.

I didn't remove those quotes due to fear.  I removed them because they made the 
manual harder to read.  Quotes are important to get right in English, and part 
of getting it right is to avoid overusing them.

To be fair, the unnecessary quotes in the manual weren't as bad as these:

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/