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Re:Layout 101 by minitech on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:04AM (#21794565)
German quotation marks, so not really correct for English. And the backwards apostrophes I don’t think would even be correct in German?
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Re:Layout 101 by benatkin on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:13AM (#21794590)
According to Wikipedia, there are a lot of other languages that use that style, including countries that have much higher rates of fluency in English than Germany. If I had to guess, I'd guess that the author is dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
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Re:Layout 101 by disillusion on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:39AM (#21795006)
The style of question marks used, while perhaps correct, is extremely uncommon in Dutch. It's also not easy to type, even with a Dutch keyboard layout. I'd bet that the author is German.
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Re:Layout 101 by viraptor on Sunday December 15, 2019 @05:25AM (#21795476)
They depend on your locale/editor rather than keyboard. If you switch to Polish for example, Word will auto-correct the first quotation mark to the lower version. (Or did years ago) I've never had to type one explicitly.
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Re:Layout 101 by dewey on Sunday December 15, 2019 @09:04AM (#21796260)
The name of the "owner" of the Google Drive document is Dylan. Not sure if that's the original author though.
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Re:Layout 101 by hoyd on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:50AM (#21795031)
We would sometime use that in Norway too. Don't do myself, but feels more natural to keep both at top.
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