The Gunstringer preview: Kinect goes 'hardcore'

[binary solo]

osamanobama said:

binary solo said:

Sounds like it will be a fun addition to the Kinect stable. I think putting hardcore in inverted commas is a obviously telling readers not to expect a hardcore (take that meaning for however you interpret it) game, but it's not kiddie casual or family party either.

I don't know why people are making a fuss out of the inverted commas hard core tag. Or do people not understand what it means when a descriptive term is put into inverted commas (hint it often means the opposite, or it's a deliberate exaggeration)?

i believe the term youre looking for are quotation marks

Nope, the term I was looking for was inverted comma; it's a synonym for quotation mark.

inverted comma

–noun British .

quotation mark.

Also called turned comma.

Origin:

1780–90

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inverted comma

The term pre-dates "quotation mark" by about 100 years according to that website.