r/UnnecessaryQuotes • u/Knever • Jul 29 '25

I'm pretty sure this "house" was an elementary school at some point. Weird. Kinda funky for sure.

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u/Big_JR80 Jul 29 '25

Nope, completely necessary. Despite marketed as a house, that's not a house, hence "house".

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u/Knever Jul 29 '25

It has been converted into a house. What is used to be doesn't really change the fact that it's now a house.

If you took a pair of denim jeans and converted them into a jacket, did you make a "jacket" or did you make a jacket?

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u/Big_JR80 Jul 29 '25

If you took a pair of denim jeans and converted them into a jacket, did you make a "jacket" or did you make a jacket?

That depends on whether the jacket looks like a jacket, or like a pair of jeans and you're simply calling them a "jacket".

In this case, someone is using a school as a home. It's not a house by any stretch of the imagination. Which is why calling it a "house" is completely appropriate.

Time for you to educate yourself.

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u/QueenPooper13 Jul 29 '25

If I made a jacket out of jeans and someone complimented my jacket (especially in a written format), I would absolutely respond with "This "jacket" used to be jeans!"

So, yes in this context (acknowledging what something is versus what it used to be), the quotes are useful.

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u/Knever Jul 29 '25

Do you also put "oil" in your car? Do you eat "food"? Do you read "books"?

All of these things used to be something else (fossils, seeds, trees) and yet we don't use quotes for them just because they changed form.

It seems like you think that a human changing something makes it need quotes, whereas if it was changed by something other than humanity, it would be fine. Is that how it is?

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u/QueenPooper13 Jul 29 '25

If I were explaining that I was putting oil in my car, I would say, "I'm putting oil in my car."

But if I were explaining to someone, maybe a child, that this substance we call oil used to be dinosaurs/fossils that have gone through significant chemical changes to become another substance, I might say "this "oil" used to fossils."

See how sometimes a rule can apply and sometimes it doesn't, completely depending on context?

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u/Knever Jul 30 '25

I am baffled as to your criteria for using quotes.

So if you were explaining the human digestive system to someone, you'd say that the food we eat and the liquids we drink are siphoned by our body for their useful bits, and the bits that aren't useful are expelled as "feces" and "urine"?

I am doing my best to try to understand your reasoning but honestly it does not make a lick of sense.

Can you explain your exact criteria for this type of usage so I can get a better understanding, since it is not compatible with the agreed-upon definitions of correct usage?