• Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    fear quotes, dude.

    I sincerely hope that you are a racist troll,

    you hope differently from me.

    • nostrauxendar@lemmy.world
      5·
      5 days ago

      What does your first sentence mean in this reply? That the person you’re replying to should be scared of quotes?

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Oh, sorry, is the correct term now “scare quotes”? Websearches were stubborn to pull up a definition for “fear quotes”. But since you know scare and fear are synonyms… this should be in reach.

        I coulda swore “fear quotes” was the idiom. Maybe I’ve slipped along the 6th dimension again, and/or some vast retcon’s afoot. n_n

        Anyways, I used scare quotes to denote my distaste for that term, mocking those who are into that kind of thing, highlighting the implausibility of it (being “pure”).