HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoThe White Buffalolemmy.worldimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1914arrow-down184file-text
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minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·6 months agoDo you even understand what quotation marks mean? WeirdGuy didn’t say that.
minus-squareStorminNorman@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoWhich is totally fine. Your usage of them as you did would be called a scare quote.
minus-squareStorminNorman@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 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”.