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It’s a single common word in the middle of the sentence. Doesn’t it have to be a scare quote? It wouldn’t make much sense to actually be quoting just a single n
by tshaddox 5y ago
It’s a single common word in the middle of the sentence. Doesn’t it have to be a scare quote? It wouldn’t make much sense to actually be quoting just a single noun with zero context.
- DonHopkins 5y agoThey read like 'half scare quotes', not "scare quotes", to me -- 'mildly cautious quotes'. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/06/scare-quotes.html https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/06/scare-quotes.html >Are scare quotes scary? >[...] But the warning quotes you’re referring to, sometimes called “scare quotes,” should always be double quotes, not singletons, in American writing. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/the-scare-quote-2016-in-a-punctuation-mark/511319/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/th... >The Scare Quote: 2016 in a Punctuation Mark >Doubled quotes developed as indications of a rational world. Now they’re developing as indications of the opposite.