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No one said the quoted bit (your "long way of saying"). Please don't make up quotes (at all), but especially please do not make one up if the only intent is to
by cxr 6y ago
No one said the quoted bit (your "long way of saying"). Please don't make up quotes (at all), but especially please do not make one up if the only intent is to dump on how bad an idea it would be for someone to actually say it.
- twic 6y agoI said it. The second set of quote marks here do not mark a quotation from someone else, they mark my paraphrase of the first quote.
- cxr 6y agoNo worry has been directed at the second set of quotation marks. It's "the first quote"—which is not a quote, because it's something pulled out of thin air—that is the problem. It's also against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13602947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13602947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893789