{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Donald Trump is 'unable' to use quotation marks - and that's a problem", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/158411011358/", "html": "Donald Trump is 'unable' to use quotation marks - and that's a problem\n

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The influential but now mostly retired blogger Carles of Hipster Runoff also made liberal use of scare quotes, applying them even to apparently simple terms used in a literal sense, such as \u201cwebsite\u201d and \u201cunderstandable\u201d.\u00a0

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This usage is, on the face of it, closer to Mr Trump\u2019s than the more familiar usage, where a minister might refer to \u201chard Brexit\u201d in scare quotes, because he doesn\u2019t believe the term is accurate but wants to be understood.\u00a0

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When Mr Trump puts \u201chackers\u201d in quotation marks, he does actually mean hackers, who he believes are genuinely hackers, and he isn\u2019t obviously quoting someone else saying that. He just puts the important part of the sentence in quotes \u2013 like Carles.

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