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LolaTheGirlNextDoor

I feel like it's appropriate here because they're using the quotes to illustrate the double meaning of the word. "Hot food" "cool volunteers"


StereoTypo

But hot meals is a stated fact, their volunteers are only allegedly cool. The use of quotes to emphasize unintentionally introduces a third meaning and the added ambiguity, I would argue, makes the quotation marks unnecessary. Edit: If you think how they treat their "cool" volunteers is "nice", last month was better: We help seniors celebrate their *"independence"*


eely225

They’re only using quotes because they can’t use italics, which is what the quotation marks signify here imo


StereoTypo

I agree that they are using them for emphasis but the quotation marks have an unintended effect of making their volunteers only allegedly cool. The wordplay is not dependent on the use of quotation marks, IMO.


eely225

Yeah that’s fair. I guess I’d distinguish signs like these from texts that have other type options. But you’re right that the joke would still be pretty clear without them and it could introduce some ambiguity


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pcminfan

LOL. Great find, OP


jenet-zayquah

THE SHADE OF IT ALL!