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Comment by DetroitThrow

14 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.

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maxbond  14 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  14 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".