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8:49pm August 13, 2013

does anyone else…

josiahd:

…find it kind of red-flaggy when people use a lot of unneccsary quote marks?

Like this:

I thought that my son “wanted” to “communicate”.

We just got a “diagnosis” for “practical” reasons.

I don’t really pay it much attention.

I used to know a guy who put quote marks everywhere. I asked him whether they are for emphasis, or to make the word not valid, or something else and JUST FOR ASKING he blew up at me for not accepting his neurodiverse nature.

I couldn’t figure out what he meant by anything so rather than pretend to know, I asked, and apparently that was wrong ?

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  1. knocked-right-in-spice reblogged this from yesthattoo
  2. yesthattoo reblogged this from auti-stim and added:
    yes
  3. auti-stim reblogged this from voltron-da-eclair
  4. karalianne reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I think that the reason they are suspect is because they look like scare quotes. And that people are actually using them...
  5. pinkbaron reblogged this from madeofpatterns
  6. witchyautisticweirdo reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I use a lot of quotation marks. I often use them in a way to indicate something isn’t real or something is a lie or...
  7. mmmyoursquid said: I use them as sarcasm markers. Or to describe something that is purported to be one thing but actually is not. I’m not sure if that’s the same as what you’re describing.
  8. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I don’t really pay it much attention. I used to know a guy who put quote marks everywhere. I asked him whether they are...
  9. glitchbunny reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    yeah, but it depends on the words used in quotation marks though. like quotations usually make it seem like word it’s...
  10. karalianne said: Those are scare quotes and they indicate sarcasm. Some people use them to emphasize words and they are wrong. It just ends up looking silly.
  11. pallasiteflower reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    Yah, usually don’t trust it. Why must it be in quotation marks? Why are these words special. Reminds me when people do...
  12. whyaremyfishturningpink said: do you know what ‘scare quotes’ means?
  13. voltron-da-eclair said: super red flaggy
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