Phrases tend to take on meaning distinct from or supplementary to their constituents. In written English, you can highlight this with quotes or capitalization, both of which are disruptive and therefore under-used. In spoken English, marking a special phrase is very awkward, and is done extremely rarely.
It’d be nice to have a function word or pair of function words for this. It could probably double as a parenthesization mechanism.
Phrases tend to take on meaning distinct from or supplementary to their constituents. In written English, you can highlight this with quotes or capitalization, both of which are disruptive and therefore under-used. In spoken English, marking a special phrase is very awkward, and is done extremely rarely.
It’d be nice to have a function word or pair of function words for this. It could probably double as a parenthesization mechanism.
Perhaps a special sort of quote symbol used to highlight metaphors?