poch on Nostr: A quotation mark does almost nothing. No sound, no letters, no meaning of its own. ...
A quotation mark does almost nothing. No sound, no letters, no meaning of its own. All it says is: these words came from someone.
Remove it and the same sentence, unchanged word for word, stops being testimony and becomes assertion.
When a company was caught publishing AI-written citation summaries as if a scientist had written them, it did not retract the sentence. It removed the quotation marks and kept the words.
The sentence was never the problem. The mark was.
I wrote the whole thing here:
https://telegra.ph/The-Quotation-Mark-10-02Published at
2026-10-02 22:49:51 UTCEvent JSON
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