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BBC news articles are full of scare quotes then.
Those are just traditional quotes, used to indicate that the words are something that someone else said, verbatim.
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BBC news articles are full of scare quotes then.
In the headlines. The journalistic use of scare quotes around single words in headlines is so they can trumpet claims without taking legal responsibility for them.
They are more commonly used just to communicate to the reader about which part of the headline is paraphrased and which part is not. A subject’s diction can be very important in many news stories and so quotations of this type can communicate a lot of information in a short headline. It also indicates when a phrase is not editorial in nature, but a claim made by someone else.
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I use it to share certain activity photos with a small group who aren't on Insta/F (like me). For that, it's great. No expectation that it'll be around forever -- it's just real time photos of us on vacation in a way that doesn't bombard Messages.
I get the use case, I don't get why there is a need for yet-another app for it when there group messaging apps can do that. > in a way that doesn't bombard Messages I'm pretty sure that you can just mute notifications from WhatsApp/Telegram/Matrix/XMPP/Messenger-du-jour...
It has feed about posts like original Facebook without algorithms. WhatsApp et al. does not have.
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#34Its private, free, and with no ads...
... well until we need to make money, when we will sell all of that to someone.
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Language is dynamic and flowing and changing, and it's going to be whatever it is no matter how angry it makes you. Better to go with the flow than to scream into the wind. Is "fuckwits" proper English? Who cares?
There is language changing with the times, and then there is people changing language just because they figure they should/can. I have no issue with the prior. My issue is with the latter. And anyone who speaks the language or uses it on a daily basis has all the right in the world to judge the misuse of it. If you have a problem with this, then please stop talking all together, because your opinions are worthless. I…
If people say it, and other people understand what is said, then it's acceptable, correct English. End of story. "English as she is spoke", as Mark Twain put it. The dictionary is defined by how people speak, not the other way around. There is no arbiter of the English language, nor should there be. Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Urban -- they're all just snapshots of a language that has no real rules besides "if it sounds right, it's valid".
Scare quotes are absolutely valid English, because people use them. They are used to signal sarcasm or disbelief.
I'm going to assume that you are having a bad day or your comments were simply flamebait, in either case -- I hope you feel less angry soon and enjoy the rest of your day.
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Language is dynamic and flowing and changing, and it's going to be whatever it is no matter how angry it makes you. Better to go with the flow than to scream into the wind. Is "fuckwits" proper English? Who cares?
There is language changing with the times, and then there is people changing language just because they figure they should/can. I have no issue with the prior. My issue is with the latter. And anyone who speaks the language or uses it on a daily basis has all the right in the world to judge the misuse of it. If you have a problem with this, then please stop talking all together, because your opinions are worthless. I…
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#38Just let me stop you right there as I reiterate what Apple App Store has to say about HalloApp and its privacy: Data Linked to You The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes: * Contact Info Phone number (your most prized privacy info). This is a FULL-STOP right there in these days and ages. * Contacts Contacts (your entire address book, who would wan…
> We use your phone number to connect you with friends and family. Beyond that, we never collect, store or use any personal information and never show you ads. Never. For real. From their homepage. Contact Info and Contacts sharing are inherent to this app, it seems. It's worth noting that "beyond that, we never collect [more personal information]" is pretty clearly incorrect, since they do at least also collect cont…
> We're not selling your data, we're transferring it.
To be fair, if they get purchased or otherwise change hands, you'd want the data transferred and not deleted or siloed so it can't be used for its intended purpose.
> in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets.
This reads to me like "if we or our product become part of something else, that something else is now us".
Only the most aggressive reading... "we sell... all or a portion of our assets" can be read as them selling your data for profit. Does that mean they won't? No, but the terms look like they're either hiding it well or it isn't their intention.
I don't have great trust in tech companies, but I have some faith when the marketing is predicated on privacy, that a sale would ruin their reputation.
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#39Tip: it's not an official grammar rule, but in colloquial terms, scare quotes [1] are often used to indicate that the speaker is being sarcastic or that the quoted thing isn't actually true. So a typical American reader might infer from your title that this app is not _really_ "private" or "free". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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#40How are they going to address the problem of connection creep? (Over time the number of people you add to your friends network increase and cause context collapse)