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minus-squareStorminNorman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhich is totally fine. Your usage of them as you did would be called a scare quote.
minus-squareStorminNorman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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”.
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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”.