Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Except there's no way you could have used "those" words with "irony" or "reservation". If you were attempting to highlight their importance "in" the sentence which is properly "done" with italics or informally with an asterisk on either side of the word. In fact the decision to effectively air quote them makes it "seems" as though there is some sort "of" weird innuendo being used.
Lulz, dude, what I did was correct use. It is done quite often in the professional world and in journalism. It is also done quite often to mock.
I may be thinking of scare quotes. None the less, it is still correct. I could be thinking of any number of uses of quotes, but it is still correct use. I do this QUITE often. Here's another example: Wow, look at that, you "correctly" captured my use of quotes.