cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3613920

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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

“But I still want to get paid for it.”

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It’s not “famous” that should be in inverted commas, but “artist”.

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We call those quotation marks.

But yes.

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

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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.

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Who is we? The global pedant society?

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11 points

The English language? I have never heard the phrase “inverted commas.”

But as to your point: “Both? Both is good.”

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Actually I’d argue you could put quotation marks on every word in the first half of the headline.

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