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Comment by DiggyJohnson

12 days ago

> "torture"

This is an egregious use of quotes that will confuse a lot of people. GP never used that word, and that usage of quotes is specifically for referencing a word verbatim.

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DetroitThrow  12 days ago

Also to be clear, his [torture] paraphrase is referencing GP's reference of Winston Smith's torture in 1984.

>electronic equivalent of Winston Smith with the rats.

I don't think quotes were used so egregiously here on their own fwiw, but combined with the allusion it's hard to follow.

  • maxbond  12 days ago

    Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to be clearer in the future. I didn't intend to communicate that it was a quote. I meant to communicate that it was tenuous to describe it as torture.

    • Turing_Machine  11 days ago

      We really should have different punctuation marks for verbatim quotes:

      Senator Johnson said "I'm taking my wife to Spago."

      and so-called "scare" quotes:

      Senator Johnson was seen at Spago with his "wife".