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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 12:59:12 JST clacke

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   • maya ❅
   @maya I use "[square bracketed text in quotes]" and I think at least non-zero people get what I'm doing.
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     maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 12:59:13 JST maya ❅

     I want a typographic convention for paraphrasis. ~”Not the thing that was literally said but my approximation of it, but also clearly marked off as reported speech.”

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     maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 19:56:16 JST maya ❅

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     update: “[the approximation]” has been working great, thank you to all who commented and helped me get here

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     maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 20:42:06 JST maya ❅

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     • Lea

     @lea this is a good one! it has the semantic association like an approximate-tilde, but maybe a bit easier for someone to piece together without prompting

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     Lea (lea@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 20:42:09 JST Lea

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     @maya Brackets inside quotes can mean that that part is paraphrased, so perhaps have the whole thing in brackets inside the quote marks, like: “[not the thing that was literally said]”

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