i don’t want to keep going back and forth saying the same stuff over and over, so we disagree.
i just wanted to point out the way you used the quotation marks is called scare quotes. weird name but that’s what they’re generally called.
i think it is called that because the author is afraid to use the term directly so they use these quotes to signal they don’t mean the contents, but aren’t necessarily quoting anyone either.
They’re making any argument that avoids addressing the intent and involvement of a 40 year old man with a high school girl. There isn’t anything to salvage from the topic.
i don’t want to keep going back and forth saying the same stuff over and over, so we disagree.
i just wanted to point out the way you used the quotation marks is called scare quotes. weird name but that’s what they’re generally called.
i think it is called that because the author is afraid to use the term directly so they use these quotes to signal they don’t mean the contents, but aren’t necessarily quoting anyone either.
They’re making any argument that avoids addressing the intent and involvement of a 40 year old man with a high school girl. There isn’t anything to salvage from the topic.