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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI, too, like to use quotation "marks."
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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
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leftstreet
(36,108 posts)1. Like "President" Trump
What an immature creep he is
livetohike
(22,144 posts)2. Just sent him a tweet. Put "wife" in quotes for him. n/t
underpants
(182,803 posts)3. The "orb"
frazzled
(18,402 posts)4. They're called scare quotes
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