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Why is "expert" in quotes? Aren't 11 zerodays impressive?
by rany_ 6y ago
Why is "expert" in quotes? Aren't 11 zerodays impressive?
- sdflhasjd 6y agoIt's in quotes because it's a quote from Maddie Stone as opposed to a judgement made by the author.
- tiddles 6y agoTotally off topic, but I'm often tripped up by these multiple uses of quotes like this. Why do we use the same symbols out of a huge space for both quoting and sarcasm ?
- Bancakes 6y agoSarcasm should be put in single quotes.
- corty 6y agoThere are separate symbols for sarcasm, but in "serious" writing emoji aren't considered appropriate. And sites/software likes to restrict them, like e.g. HN, which is why the sarcasm above is marked by quotes instead of the appropriate emoji. Some earlier internet cultures used :> But I fear that is understood less widely nowadays.
- codetrotter 6y agoOn Reddit people sometimes put /s at the end of a sentence to indicate sarcasm. And then there is also the irony punctuation which looks like this: ⸮ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation But I have never seen anyone actually ever use it. In fact I only ever heard about it so rarely that I almost miswrote and was about to say that interrobang is sometimes used for indicating sarcasm. But when I looked it up I read that interrobang is for showing surprise of course! As for your :> there was a guy that used to use it on an IRC channel that I was on. But I never understood quite what he meant by that kind of smiley. And later I looked it up and in his case I think the description I saw on Urban Dictionary fit pretty well, which said it was like a mischievous or devious smile. And I guess that also fits good for when you are sarcastic. Ever since I read that definition of :> it makes me think of this cartoon grinch smile https://meme.fandom.com/wiki/The_Grinch_Smile https://meme.fandom.com/wiki/The_Grinch_Smile
- smolder 6y agoNot a linguist or anything, but I'd say there's really just two categories: direct quotes (usually with a source), and then scare quotes which are used to communicate that you don't endorse the usage of the contained word(s).
- rzzzt 6y agoBBC articles tend to use it a lot, it's probably part of their style guide. I snicker quietly at each title that "is worded" like "this", imagining a Dr. Evil air quoting each segment dutifully.
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- cyberpunk 6y agoIt looks like the chain here was 'visit some site via browser' -> 'kernel exploit' on ios, windows and android. I'd call whoever is responsible for such a valuable amount of 0days expert/nation state level for sure.