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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, no, you were right. That's where in spoken conversation you would use air quotes, so it seems correct to use the term this way online too. Maybe writing "virtual air quotes" would help people who don't understand that this is a text conversation, not literal speech?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah I thought it was overly pedantic but ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See, I knew I was smaht!