So I wonder: were these "Smart Tags"? The Russian translation called them "quotes", but something makes me not trust it very much.
No---Smart Quotes are (should be) quotation marks, just remarkably un-smart ones. *These* are "Smart" Tags: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010347451033.aspx After writing and seeing the word "smart" this many times in one message, it now looks like utter gobbledegook. As it should. C.
