[brigandish]

> That's a fairly common way of picking a message apart to make a point, on some parts of the internet. Sometimes people paraphrase instead of literally copying words (esp. if there's no good short sequence of words to borrow), but quote marks are still used.

Among people who can’t make their point with an accurate representation of someone else’s words. All the descriptive words for this behaviour are negative, for good reason. I suspect you know this, hence the throwaway account.

> I wish we had a better notation for this.

The better notation for this is not to do it, that’s why there is no notation for it.

> I'm sorry to have caused confusion.

I’m not sure HN is for you. Don’t do this again if you’re really sorry.

[brigandish]

HN obviously isn’t for them.