Lol obviously, brainfart on my behalf. Is there a word for those kinds of sarcastic (for lack of a better word) quotes where it’s not just quoted, but implied to cast doubt on the original text/quote?
I mean, no, you were right. That’s where in spoken conversation you would use air quotes, so it seems correct to use the term this way online too. Maybe writing “virtual air quotes” would help people who don’t understand that this is a text conversation, not literal speech?
Lol obviously, brainfart on my behalf. Is there a word for those kinds of sarcastic (for lack of a better word) quotes where it’s not just quoted, but implied to cast doubt on the original text/quote?
Scare quotes.
I mean, no, you were right. That’s where in spoken conversation you would use air quotes, so it seems correct to use the term this way online too. Maybe writing “virtual air quotes” would help people who don’t understand that this is a text conversation, not literal speech?
See, I knew I was smaht!