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Fox news trying to explain github. (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] sfbing@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 1 day 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.