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why i use quotes, a public apology.

I use quotes when I’m throwing out words and concepts that I understand aren’t exact but do the job anyhow. I only bring this up because I use quotes a lot more than other people.

  1. Hyperbolic wrote:

    Anyway, I only mention it because some of you guys really seem into investigating what’s between the quotes when i would rather just barrel through it.

  2. Paul wrote:

    that’s just saying something without actually saying it. now i understand the desire to barrel through something, especially since nit-picking over words can be pointless and side track from the issues at stake, but at the same time there’s always the risk that the inexactness of the concept is because the concept just isn’t there.

  3. Hyperbolic wrote:

    No, if there is no concept one can make one, which means there was never no concept.

  4. Tar wrote:

    what are concepts but combinations of other concepts

  5. schachman wrote:

    Hyperbolic uses quotation marks to denote innuendo.
    Tar wants to activate subjects by objectifying text as the subject’s object.
    Paul fears these little marks will capture the semantic force of the word and reverse its allegiance.

    Quotation marks are so “bad.”

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