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Jul 16, 2014 at 10:45	comment	added	naughtilus		That's a good distinction, I didn't pick up on that. You're quite right. The quoted passage doesn't make it especially clear where the actual quote is delimited. I think in that particular case the words quote... unquote are used to draw attention to the most salient words in the response, all of which was an actual quote, in the same way that a single line from an interview piece in a magazine might be blown up in 40-point font and placed alongside the piece. Something like "if you only read one thing on this page to get an idea of the point, this is it."
Jul 15, 2014 at 15:28	comment	added	Jay		... "he said ...", etc.
Jul 15, 2014 at 15:28	comment	added	Jay		If someone says, "In a phone call he said, 'We are making ...'", I understand that to mean that "We are making ..." is an exact quote, not a paraphrase. If you want to convey that it's a paraphrase, you can say something like, "In a phone call he said that they are making ..." It can be more difficult to distinguish an exact quote from a paraphrase in speech than in print, as the audience can't see the quote marks, but there are some pretty common conventions to make the difference. Like if you're paraphrasing, you don't say "we", you say "they". And you say "he said that ..." rather than ...
Jul 15, 2014 at 9:17	history	answered	naughtilus	CC BY-SA 3.0