What is a widespread use of quotes to mean something like “so called”? Most Americans understand that if elections were rigged, it would be wise to question any individual who believes like me about the election. If this is the case then the writing doesn’t believe he is truly learning.

However another widespread (but definitely incorrect) use of quotes is for emphasis. How should we study for exams? Should I use points in quotations? Can you explain this usage as you understand?

Only context determines what you were trying to

write.

Quote… unquote = for

• lack of a better word emphasis
• correlation
• to another known concept/situation denote
• tongue-in-cheek sarcasm e.g.

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• for lack of a better word

  We were trekking at the edges of the jungles of Kalimantan. One day our guide harvested some milky liquid from nearby palms, while keeping a tight attention. I yelled at him and gestured “drinking” and with his thumb pointing into his mouth, and then pointing to his plastic bag of liquid, saying “Toddy, toddy,…” We were puzzled and so he said “Volk, coconut, vodka”. We had only brought our cycling water bottles with us from the UK, so he fashioned some ‘cups’ out of palm leaves. You can keep it that way, Mr. Jackson.

  So that morning we sat at the cliff watching the sea, while drinking ‘vodka’ out of cup of palm’. And yes it really was so bad.

• When/what is the correlation to

  another known concept/situation Our employers would persistently admonish us “You have to learn from one another. Here’s your lesson: You have to learn from other’s.” So much, so that we had to produce evidence for 10 instances of having learned from a colleague, which would count towards 25% of each of our bonus pay. Most users had racked up only 3 or 4 instances of ‘learning’, now when we had only one month left till the annual performance review.

  Does Henry have information about shipping? If everyone is my age, I penned an email asking him a couple of questions, so I started to send the email. Should I have gone to the office while I was working/in college? What is the most interesting thing he said? I then asked him to clarify something but he didn’t respond or explain it his way. What should I do? I wrote to thank him saying “Thanks Henry, I am learning from you. You see, He responded with “Me too. :-)”. What would I do if I have racked up 4 more learning points?

• Why

  learning is important in machine intelligence? In current advancements in technology, we say the “teachability” of artificial intelligence. In new-school technology, we lean more towards the “learnability” of a machine intelligence.

  A robustly designed and engineered machine intelligence should vastly and always “learning”.

• Sarcasm

  Raju is a very motivated and “enthusiastic” engineer. What does “enthusiastic” mean? So “enthusiastic” was he, that he often fed to us the nitty-gritties he observed in our work.

  I was sent a note from the co-worker complaining about it. He wrote a letter back. One day he sent me the note. Actually “whining”. That day, I decided that I too, should be just as driven… I would reply to each and every question he sends me.Thx Raju, I am learning (-).

What is the best way to describe a simple example of a simple step by step procedure?

From your context that you have provided, it is likely that a person is genuinely appreciative. The reason “learning” is quoted is probable because the author feels they aren’t actually learning and feel embarrassed.

Either they misunderstandings the use of quotation marks and are being sarcastic or they misunderstanding and are thankful. I hear the insensitive commenter in your email that he is arrogant, ignorant, and

appreciative.