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minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink-1•11 months agoDo you even understand what quotation marks mean? WeirdGuy didn’t say that.
minus-square@StorminNorman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•11 months agoWhich is totally fine. Your usage of them as you did would be called a scare quote.
minus-square@StorminNorman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•11 months agoYou sure as shit don’t. They used the quotation marks just fine. So fine in fact, that this usage you are so against is a well established grammatical device, look up “scare quotes”.
Do you even understand what quotation marks mean? WeirdGuy didn’t say that.
I wasn’t literally quoting him.
Which is totally fine. Your usage of them as you did would be called a scare quote.
You sure as shit don’t. They used the quotation marks just fine. So fine in fact, that this usage you are so against is a well established grammatical device, look up “scare quotes”.