“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”

Re:“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl develop... by samatman on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:30PM (#26509393)

Not that you asked, but the «French style» of guillemets is my favourite way to wrap a quotation out of all of them. Unicode has rather too many "quotemarks" and they all sort of run together. The German style of using them strikes me as aesthetically perverse, like the sentence is being pinched, or like a language which uses }braces like this{ !

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Re:“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl develop... by tasogare on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:03PM (#26509554)

Little typography nitpicking: the content inside the French quotes is supposed to be separated from the quote symbols by a (non-breaking) space, « like this ».

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Re:“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl develop... by bhaak on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:53AM (#26512698)

Interesting different aesthetical preferences voiced in this thread. :-)

As others already said, the French actually use the guillemets with thin spaces but the Swiss use them without.

But the outward pointing of the guillemets looks really odd to me. I like that the inward pointing guillemets basically scream "look at me, I'm a quoted part!".

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Re:“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl develop... by abrowne on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:00PM (#26509533)

Real « French style » puts spaces inside (they should be thin spaces).

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