Re:Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded
by pavlov on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:25PM
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Why the scare quotes around European Commission?
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Re:Brain Simulation Promised a Decade Ago Hasn't Succeeded
by needle0 on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:03AM
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The scare-quote type of usage for quotation marks is common in English but not universal across all languages. As many Hacker News commenters are not native English speakers, it makes sense to assume quotes are not always used for that meaning.