This is beneath you. You should be ashamed.
One uses those quotes for emphasizing one's OWN words, or concept, as you know.
You don't quote another person, then claim, when they tell you that they never said what you have attributed to them, that you didn't mean they SAID them, you were only EMPHASIZING how "significant" they were to you!
Even average joe didn't do that.
In fact, may I point out that he has not admitted that I never uttered the quote he attributed to me, which would have been easy enough to do in your scenario.
He has not claimed that the quotes around my presumed words, for him, defined
words used with special emphasis or significance.
And of course he couldn't, since what would be the point of emphasizing something I'd never said (not being an idiot), or showing significance of something I'd never said, except...
except...
to insinuate an untruth?
You are a professional writer, aren't you? You surely are aware that you don't attribute quotes to others for emphasis. You shock me!
You are clearly "defending" average joe's "lies."
See how I used those quotation marks in that sentence? That was to show special emphasis in the first case and special significance in the second, and in neither case was I attributing the words to another.
Don't say I never taught you nothin', dude. |
