culture is repeating something until others repeat it for you

[rone]

We don't have a quote-unquote dominant team...

JESUS CHRIST ON A VT100.  It's bad enough when people actually say "quote-unquote" (as opposed to saying "quote, this is a quote, unquote", or in this case, the more correct "so-called" or the pretentious but accurate "soi-disant"), but when someone writes it instead of using, you know, quote marks, it's just another paving brick on the road to hell.

Comments

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

I just recently watched an interview with Stephen Wright, who said that he wished his first word had been "quote", so that right before he died, he could say "unquote".

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I used "soi-disant" in a note yesterday. Feeling sideswiped by your gratuitous insult.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hey, 'pretentious' doesn't have to be an insult. I, too, like using soi-disant.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Your soi-disant apology is quote-unquote pretentious.

(I recently read some in-house material where the author had applied many, many scare quotes. They were correctly applied but, ah, somewhat overdone.)

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

YARG.

That is all.

[rwx.livejournal.com]

WTFF?

[foomf.livejournal.com]

oh ffs. The only place that phrase belongs is in transcribed dialogue.