• lath@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s “quote unquote something” because most people who "quote something often forget to unquote afterwards.

  • 8000gnat@reddthat.com
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    10 months ago

    this is one of those things that I have wondered about for so long that I forgot to wonder about it

  • shastaxc@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    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

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Because it would be pretty silly to verbally say “quote” “the thing” and them finish of with “unquote” at the end, like some kind of robot.

    The whole point of saying it is to clarify that you’re quoting something.