On 6/21/2012 12:55 AM, deadrat wrote:
> On 6/20/12 9:40 PM, don Gabacho wrote:
>> On 6/20/2012 7:04 PM, deadrat wrote:
>>
>>> More scare quotes...
>>
>> "More scare quotes"?
>>
>> And you accuse others of being "paranoid"!
>
> "Scare quotes" is a term of typesetting art.
Now that I've checked out the term, previously unknown to me, at
Wikipedia, the first thing I noticed is it certainly did not originate
as any "typesetting art."
> It doesn't mean anyone is
> scared, you impossible ignoramus.
Aside from your being an "impossible ignoramus" to have made the
presumption you did, that I was knowingly using "scare quotes," the
following excerpt from Wikipedia's description of the term nonetheless
happens, in my case, to apply:
"Writers use scare quotes for a variety of reasons. When the enclosed
text is a quotation from another source, scare quotes may indicate that
the writer does not accept the usage of the phrase (or the phrase
itself),[3] that the writer feels its use is potentially ironic, or that
the writer feels it is a misnomer. This meaning may serve to distance
the writer from the quoted content."
'The term scare quotes may be confusing because the word scare implies
provocation, yet the term covers emotionally neutral usage as well. In
many cases an author uses scare quotes not to convey alarm, but to
signal a semantic quibble.'
Now why your obsession against obviously misnomered "scare quotes"?
Similarly your obsession against "emoticons"?
In both cases, obviously innocent vehicles to harness your truly
despicable bile to degrade any discourse and most anyone with whom you
inflict yourself with any discourse.
There can be no justification, no rationalization for whatever motivates
your resulting obnoxiousness.
What ever happened to you to become what your are?
Do you even have a self to get under control?