• Taldan
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    12 hours ago

    Who are “you” quoting when you put quotes around “random” words?

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 hours ago

      Scare quotes, probably. This is a very particular sense of “getting”. Like, otherwise you could read this as a synonym for “receiving”.