It’s “quote unquote something” because most people who "quote something often forget to unquote afterwards.
I see what you did there… 🤣
And that breaks the processor and you have to reboot your listener and it’s such a paaaaaiin.
Broke my brain, had to read 4 times to understand
They are just doing the autocomplete verbally, like when you type an opening quote and the end quote goes in automatically but the next thing you type goes inside the quotes
Plausible for programmers, at least
I hate this functionality.
Wait, it’s “quote unquote”? I have always been saying “quote on quote” my whole life.
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France is bacon
That’s your two sense, anyway
truly a doggy dog world
I’ve heard it said both ways.
For example.
When the statement you’re quoting is going to be quote, short or simple, unquote.
Or, if it’s going to stand on its own and be quote, unquote, some long citation that would make famous Russian authors jealous.
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Indeed. With very slowly pronounced “bunny ear finger quotes” as you say it to emphasize the sarcasm.
Unrelated but until a month ago I’ve been saying “quote ON quote” until I saw it actually written 😂🤣
When I was younger I said quote END quote.
As a homeschooled kid, I usually had the opposite problem. Mispronounced so much shit.
This is considered quote unquote “Lazy”
Professors and engineers, in my experience, tend to say “quote… the thing… end quote”. Regular people on the other hand, are lazy, inconsistent and generally oblivious to whether or not they’re being ambiguous.
You’ll hear it sometimes in French.
Tangential, but I don’t understand why in American English you feel the need to say the word quote at all. In UK English we just use intenation.
I’m from the UK and I feel like I’ve heard enough UK English speakers saying “quote” that I had never thought of it as an American thing. That isn’t to say that the distinction you make doesn’t exist though, just that it may be variable across demographics or contexts.
It’s useful for when you’re quoting someone who happens to use the exact same intonation as you!
