It's "quote unquote something" because most people who "quote something often forget to unquote afterwards.
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I see what you did there.... π€£
And that breaks the processor and you have to reboot your listener and it's such a paaaaaiin.
Broke my brain, had to read 4 times to understand
Wait, it's "quote unquote"? I have always been saying "quote on quote" my whole life.
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If you are quoting a word or short phrase you use this form to make it quicker and easier for the listener to understand.
If you quote a long section, saying "quote, , unquote." is common and accepted.
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
Plausible for programmers, at least
I hate this functionality.
This is a solid take
It's the verbal equivalent of quotation marks done as a hand gesture.
YeahβI think the canonical usage is to hold up your fingers as you say βquote unquoteβ, then lower your hands when the quote is complete.
One hand for quote, the other for unquote
If anyone did this in front of me I would smack them in the mouth.
This is considered quote unquote "Lazy"
Because "quote unquote" is done for a laugh typically and "quote unquote" sounds funnier and more pleasing to the ear.
this is one of those things that I have wondered about for so long that I forgot to wonder about it
How would I even know where the quote ended
Iβve heard it said both ways.
For example.
When the statement youβre quoting is going to be quote, short or simple, unquote.
Or, if itβs going to stand on its own and be quote, unquote, some long citation that would make famous Russian authors jealous.
I think I've most often heard quote unquote used sarcastically, like scare quotes in writing. When someone's quoting something seriously I usually hear the quote something unquote or a and I quote something.
Indeed. With very slowly pronounced βbunny ear finger quotesβ as you say it to emphasize the sarcasm.
Usually I hear this as "quote something end quote"
Unrelated but until a month ago I've been saying "quote ON quote" until I saw it actually written ππ€£
When I was younger I said quote END quote.
As a homeschooled kid, I usually had the opposite problem. Mispronounced so much shit.
Archipelago.
Professors and engineers, in my experience, tend to say "quote... the thing... end quote". Regular people on the other hand, are lazy, inconsistent and generally oblivious to whether or not they're being ambiguous.
Regular people on the other hand, are lazy, inconsistent and generally oblivious to whether or not they're being ambiguous.
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You'll hear it sometimes in French.
I think because one gets the point across easily while the other is pedantic
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.
Tangential, but I don't understand why in American English you feel the need to say the word quote at all. In UK English we just use intenation.
Can I quote you on that?
It's useful for when you're quoting someone who happens to use the exact same intonation as you!
I'm from the UK and I feel like I've heard enough UK English speakers saying "quote" that I had never thought of it as an American thing. That isn't to say that the distinction you make doesn't exist though, just that it may be variable across demographics or contexts.