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  • sfbing@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Quotation marks we’re historically used …

    Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.

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      20 hours ago

      It’s valid usage if you go waaay back, i.e. centuries. You also see it in some late 19th/early 20th century newsprint and ads.