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2016 Postmortem

Jitter65

(3,089 posts) Wed Apr 6, 2016, 10:40 PM Apr 2016

When you raise your hands, make quotation marks with your fingers to indicate that you

are quoting the words that were not spoken by someone...it means you intended to lie.

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When you raise your hands, make quotation marks with your fingers to indicate that you (Original Post) Jitter65 Apr 2016 OP

Exactly radical noodle Apr 2016 #1

Yep. nt DURHAM D Apr 2016 #2

Yes. lunamagica Apr 2016 #3

It's weird, but whenever I see someone do that, I think of this. The Midway Rebel Apr 2016 #4

wiki says this is incorrect Viva_La_Revolution Apr 2016 #5

radical noodle

(10,689 posts)

1. Exactly

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Wed Apr 6, 2016, 10:44 PM

Apr 2016

DURHAM D

(33,090 posts)

2. Yep. nt

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Wed Apr 6, 2016, 10:47 PM

Apr 2016

lunamagica

(9,967 posts)

3. Yes.

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Wed Apr 6, 2016, 10:53 PM

Apr 2016

The Midway Rebel

(2,191 posts)

4. It's weird, but whenever I see someone do that, I think of this.

Reply to Jitter65 (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2016, 10:54 PM

Apr 2016

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)

5. wiki says this is incorrect

Reply to Jitter65 (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2016, 11:03 PM

Apr 2016

Air quotes are often used to express satire, sarcasm, irony or euphemism, among others, and are analogous to scare quotes in print.

But you knew that

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