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> "why aren't you using YOUR LANGUAGE, huh? What's the matter, you don't like YOUR LANGUAGE?" is pushy and weird It's also not what anyone said. > It's best n
by cxr 2y ago
> "why aren't you using YOUR LANGUAGE, huh? What's the matter, you don't like YOUR LANGUAGE?" is pushy and weird
It's also not what anyone said.
> It's best not to use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21643562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21643562>
- jodrellblank 2y agoWhy is that "best" ? > "An indirect quote lets you capture or summarize what someone said or wrote without using their exact words. It helps to convey the tone or meaning of your source without quoting them directly." - https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/quotation-marks/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/qu... I'm distilling and exaggerating multiple the comments to convey the tone and meaning of the bit I want to focus on. Asking "why not C#?" has the implicit framing "it should be C# by default and you have to justify why not" and calling out that bias to show it to be unreasonable is the intent.
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