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I am bothered by the author’s written use of ‘quote-unquote’ in place of actual quotes. This is a spoken form of scare quotes and takes ‘write like you talk’ to
by doctorhandshake 4y ago
I am bothered by the author’s written use of ‘quote-unquote’ in place of actual quotes. This is a spoken form of scare quotes and takes ‘write like you talk’ too far for me.
- likeclockwork 4y agoI agree. It's not even wrapping any text! It's just 'quote-unquote" used by itself as a prefix modifier on the next noun phrase. Disgusting.
- dheera 4y agoIt does make it more accessible if you're passing it through a TTS engine for reading.
- bowsamic 4y ago“Write like you talk” has been a genuine abomination on the internet. It has destroyed a lot of spaces for me
- jrootabega 4y agoLike it's kinda super awful(ish), child-esque.
- bowsamic 4y ago
- Barrin92 4y agoit has a different meaning because it puts more emphasis on the author distancing themselves from what is being said. Just putting things in quotes in text may just be a value neutral quote. Writing it out is a rhetorical device because it's difficult to quote sarcastically in written form. It's basically the textual version of doing quotes with your fingers in the air. From the text: Most of these quote-unquote marketed protein products are nothing more than glorified chocolate bars. The “Health Halo” effect of food is when consumers believe foods that are advertised as healthier have fewer calories
- doctorhandshake 4y agoThat is called ‘scare quotes’, and the context is almost always sufficient to distinguish them from quotation marks, certainly in this piece they would suffice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes