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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts) Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:03 AM Jul 2017

I, too, like to use quotation "marks."

Link to tweet

I'm thinking that he thinks that if he puts Russia in quotation marks, it doesn't actually exist.

FAKE NEWS!

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I, too, like to use quotation "marks." (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Jul 2017 OP

Like "President" Trump leftstreet Jul 2017 #1

Just sent him a tweet. Put "wife" in quotes for him. n/t livetohike Jul 2017 #2

The "orb" underpants Jul 2017 #3

They're called scare quotes frazzled Jul 2017 #4

leftstreet

(36,106 posts)

1. Like "President" Trump

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:04 AM

Jul 2017

What an immature creep he is

livetohike

(22,140 posts)

2. Just sent him a tweet. Put "wife" in quotes for him. n/t

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:06 AM

Jul 2017

underpants

(182,785 posts)

3. The "orb"

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:10 AM

Jul 2017

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

4. They're called scare quotes

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:41 AM

Jul 2017

And editors almost always take them out. Here, they are really "scary."

The term "scare quotes" as it refers to the punctuation marks was coined in 1956 by G. E. M. Anscombe in an essay "Aristotle and the Sea Battle" published in Mind; a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy.[7] The use of a graphic symbol on an expression to indicate irony or dubiousness goes back much further: Authors of ancient Greece used a mark called a diple periestigmene for that purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

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