Re:Stop defacing quotes with brackets
by derriz on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:43AM
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Doesn't english already have a perfectly good way to support "molding the quote into the grammatical context"?
For example, if you don't like:
He said, "I will go to the city."
You can use:
He said that he would go to the city.
Quotes are useful because the text they surround can be ungrammatical or even contain non-words, for example phonetically describing dialect.
To be consistent you would have to insist that words in quotes should always conform to the grammatical context. This would make many current (useful) uses of quotes incorrect.
For example, if you don't like:
He said, "I will go to the city."
You can use:
He said that he would go to the city.
Quotes are useful because the text they surround can be ungrammatical or even contain non-words, for example phonetically describing dialect.
To be consistent you would have to insist that words in quotes should always conform to the grammatical context. This would make many current (useful) uses of quotes incorrect.