Will_Newsome comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Kevin 14 June 2010 06:14AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 June 2010 09:49:53AM 2 points [-]

I'm worried about the "sort-of quoting" part. I get nervous when people put quote marks around things that aren't actually quotations of specific claims.

Comment author: Morendil 14 June 2010 09:53:19AM 3 points [-]

Noted, and thanks for asking. I'm also somewhat over-fond of scare quotes to denote my using a term I'm not totally sure is appropriate. Still, I believe my clarification above is sufficient that there isn't any ambiguity left now as to what I meant.