What is the function of the と particle in this sentence?


The text on which I found the following sentence is here:
<http://watanoc.com/post-1608-gozira> So... There's a part where it says:
『すごく面白い』とネットで評判です So my question is what does the と particle do in this
sentence? And also why "すごく面白い" is between these symbols "『 』"




So, as Micah has said, this `と` is indeed the quoting particle.

That said, Japanese is a lot more flexible with the grammatical concept of
quotation and how it fits into sentences than English is. Quotes can attach to
things that you wouldn't expect them to in English - like in this case, the
noun `評判`.

If you look [here](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E3%81%A8%E8%A9%95%E5%88%A4)
(and ignore all the examples involving `名声と評判` because that's the exhaustive
listing `と`), you can see that `~と評判` is a construction roughly meaning "have
a reputation for". [Jisho](https://jisho.org/search/%E8%A9%95%E5%88%A4)'s
second example sentence is in much the same vein.

In short, this comes out to something like:

> It has a reputation online for being super interesting/funny

Or more in more colloquial English:

> Everyone online says it's super interesting/funny

The quotation marks (『 』) are simply there to disambiguate the fact that
quotation is going on; the phrase would be comprehensible (but perhaps not as
immediately obvious to learners of the language) without them.




So, as Micah has said, this `と` is indeed the quoting particle.

That said, Japanese is a lot more flexible with the grammatical concept of
quotation and how it fits into sentences than English is. Quotes can attach to
things that you wouldn't expect them to in English - like in this case, the
noun `評判`.

If you look [here](https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E3%81%A8%E8%A9%95%E5%88%A4)
(and ignore all the examples involving `名声と評判` because that's the exhaustive
listing `と`), you can see that `~と評判` is a construction roughly meaning "have
a reputation for". [Jisho](https://jisho.org/search/%E8%A9%95%E5%88%A4)'s
second example sentence is in much the same vein.

In short, this comes out to something like:

> It has a reputation online for being super interesting/funny

Or more in more colloquial English:

> Everyone online says it's super interesting/funny

The quotation marks (『 』) are simply there to disambiguate the fact that
quotation is going on; the phrase would be comprehensible (but perhaps not as
immediately obvious to learners of the language) without them.

