On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger

Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by ggambetta on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:45AM (#27303020)

I have a revolutionary idea. Instead of writing Quote Unquote Great Works, we could use a symbol to denote the Quote (opening) and Unquote (closing) around the word or sentence, like $Great Works$. We could even use the quote symbol (") for this purpose, which is kind of neat.

It would look like this: "Great Works".

It's so crazy it might just work.

(but seriously, WTF, article?)

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Re:On the Impending Deletion of Charlie Bit My Finger by klmadfejno on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:38AM (#27303675)

I wouldn't use this personally, but to me it's pretty clear that the use of 'quote-unquote' is meant to denote sarcasm more strongly than quotation marks.

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