Eagle-eyed Scissorhead MDavis caught this:
#UPDATE Russia "violated" a truce it promised at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where Ukrainian forces are making a last stand in the city, a Ukrainian commander said Thursday, pleading for help for "dying" soldiers and the evacuation of civilians pic.twitter.com/VYTmNWAz13
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 5, 2022
So why the “scare quotes” around those words, AFP?
Mock Paper Scissors 
Found this a while back. Seems like a good time to post it…
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My poor (grammar nazi) wife once had the misfortune to work for someone who incessantly misused apostrophes and greengrocers quotes. Excuse me, I mean greengrocers “Quote’s”
(seriously virtually every paragraph had multiple “important” “word’s” quoted…. )
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That’s standard among European news outlets. There’s nothing sinister implied by the use of quotes here.
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Maybe it’s a”French” thing.
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I see it on British sites also. They tend to use quotes in headlines whenever they are attributing even single word to a source.
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I did not know that.
French site (where the fascist candidate just gained points since the last election) and the source was a Ukrainian commander.
Maybe I should check out a few other “French” and “British” news sites, just for the “context”.
(Scare quotes are fun!)
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“promised truce” should have been in scare quotes.
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Russia, violated, truce. Boys & girls, what word(s} do NOT belong in the same sentence?
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