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What grammatical device to I use to differentiate literal quotations and text written as quotations for stylistic/artistic reasons?
Sometimes an idea is best conveyed as if it were a snippet of a conversation.
I'm personally not a fan of stylistic quotations, outside of pieces that are wholly and explicitly fictional. There's a lot of opportunity to mislead, even without intent to do so.
But if you absolutely must:
Use clearly fake names. In cryptography situations, Alice and Bob and Charlie and Dick have been used historically, but your context may have other preferred solutions. Writers sometimes go with Tom, especially when making puns.
The same piece must use a genuine quote, from a genuine person, which is relevant, and which uses the conventions for your dialect (eg, "This is an American real quote," said gattsuru, while 'This is a British real quote,' said gattsuru later.)
If in a piece for general-purpose consumption, or which you reasonably expect to be referenced in the longer-term, explicitly state that the conversation is hypothetical or a satire.
In AP/American environments, use single quotes (eg: 'This is a fake statement,' said Alice).
In UK/Britpack environments, use a non-standard character (eg: /This is a fake statement,/ said Bob.).
Unfortunately, there are few non-standard characters on the standard keyboard which do not have overloaded meanings, especially in Markdown contexts.
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