Before we started this site we agreed that use of the word «Climategate» without appropriate
scare quotes makes a comment clear borehole fodder.
Not exact matches
It's amazing to me but we've actually had homeowners calling in lately after receiving
quotes as much at three quarters of a percent higher in rate and some with origination fee above what we can do for them and then they tell me that the other lender told them that either we were going to «
make it up in other fees» or other cautionary comments meant to
scare the borrowers into staying with them at a higher rate.
What you are describing are not «gatekeepers» and putting the word «science» in
scare quotes when referring to science journals only
makes you look like a fool.
This
makes scare quotes an effective tool for innuendo and personal attack.
As Jonathan Chair noted, «The
scare quote is the perfect device for
making an insinuation without proving it, or even necessarily
making clear what you're insinuating.»
The «problem» —
scare quotes usage — with
making judgments more readable is that that this tends to demystify the legal profession.