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Also to be clear, his [torture] paraphrase is referencing GP's reference of Winston Smith's torture in 1984. >electronic equivalent of Winston Smith with the r
by DetroitThrow 2y ago
Also to be clear, his [torture] paraphrase is referencing GP's reference of Winston Smith's torture in 1984.
>electronic equivalent of Winston Smith with the rats.
I don't think quotes were used so egregiously here on their own fwiw, but combined with the allusion it's hard to follow.
- maxbond 2y agoThanks for the feedback, I'll try to be clearer in the future. I didn't intend to communicate that it was a quote. I meant to communicate that it was tenuous to describe it as torture.
- Turing_Machine 2y agoWe really should have different punctuation marks for verbatim quotes: Senator Johnson said "I'm taking my wife to Spago." and so-called "scare" quotes: Senator Johnson was seen at Spago with his "wife".