• lobut
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    3 hours ago

    Aren’t inverted commas also a phrase for that? Or is that the joke.

    • Executive Chimp@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah. It’s from the old printing press times when they used the same pieces of type for commas and quote marks, just rotated 360 degrees.