Scare Quotes

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Scare quotes are the use of quotation marks intended to signal something about the term, like skepticism for it or others' misuse of it. For more information and uses, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes.

to-do: rewrite snarkinition to be actually about the undercutting intent implied in typical use of scare quotes
to-do: note the explicit Capitals As Authority Being Mocked (see examples in https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/writings/yesterweb) and rAnDomIsh cApitaLiZatiOn eXcEpt nEveR fiRsT cHaR noR aDjaCenT cApS (see wide variety of social media text posts) alternatives to scare quotes, advantages/disadvantages (some harsher or more polite, potentially reflects more/less badly on person using it, more/less likely to be
- Note: The random capitalization trend originates (? or at least popularized by) the Mocking Spongebob meme. Disabled people have noted that it is ableist and asked people not to use it. [1] (archived)

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