• Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world
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    In other news, the prisoners at Abu Ghraib were torturing themselves, the guards had nothing to do with it.

    Does anyone really think ice isn’t torturing these people to death?

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      You forget. America doesn’t even see it’s own citizens as humans to be valued. What do you think they think about none Americans. Its obvious to the world that America and everything it actually stands for is only providing for those with excess.

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        The only thing the US military learned from that shit was how to not get caught as easily

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    AP has the wrong word in apostrophes on this headline. It should read: ICE detainees are dying by ‘suicide’ at an alarming rate.

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      Agreed, except in the US we (edit: usually) use quotation marks for that, unless the whole thing is already in quotation marks.

      ICE detainees are dying by “suicide” at an alarming rate.

      I’m aware many other places use apostrophes, but ICE is a US peacecrime.

      Tangential question, how many fingers do people use for “finger quotes” (‘finger quotes’) where you live?

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        Two, on just one hand. We’re too lazy to lift both hands to quote someone, so the other hand stays firmly planted in the pocket (speaking on behalf of millions of Norwegians, of course).

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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        My understanding is that quotes are used to relay what someone said verbatim, and apostrophes are used to emphasize words, to quote them informally, or to express sarcasm. Even here in the US. But this differences have become fuzzy over time.

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          Hmmm… In the article, ‘alarming’ (as written in the headline) turns out to be a direct quote from Dr. Sanjay Basu. But as you say, fuzzy.

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        I’m aware many other places use apostrophes, but ICE is a US peacecrime.

        Which can be written about from other places. A better argument would be that AP is based in the US, yet they still use single quotation marks.

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    ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds

    Ummm…

    ICE detainees are dying by “suicide” at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds

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      ICE “detainees” are dying by “suicide” at an “alarming” rate, and AP “investigation” finds.

      The whole thing is pretty bad

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    Wait, the ICE that’s filled with white supremacists are allowing detainees to commit suicide? I’m shocked. Now I suppose you’ll tell me that a vast majority of those that died are POC/minorities.

    /s