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xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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Although now people will realize three-per-em space that all this time I've been using weird medium mathematical space whitespace characters in my hair space hair space hair space speech dot dot dot...

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[–] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the point though, quote to tell people it's a quote and unquote to signal that you are using it out of context or sarcastically, thus not quoting the original sentiment. It's correct.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

I think they're more annoyed that some people say both right before they start the quote