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I 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.
by twic 6y ago
I 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