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A comment on Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American. Parent comment

Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by smitty1e on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:51AM (#28537154)
Punctuation has a braking effect on the reader.

, ; : .

If you're at a full stop, the second . feels superfluous.

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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by kube-system on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:27AM (#28537736)
Then again, ellipsis marks are also a thing.
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