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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by smeej on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:41AM (#28537834)
Supposing the sentence weren't complete on the first page but the quoted one were, is this what you would expect to see?

"...and also look ugly.",

In that case, the convention of placing just a comma inside the quotation marks if the quoted sentence were complete but the quoting sentence were not seems much cleaner.

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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by marcus_holmes on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:57AM (#28539087)
Yes that's exactly what I'd expect to see.

    He said "I came in with the tide.", but she wasn't listening.
(which is correct according to my expensive British education) is very preferable to

    He said "I came in with the tide.," but she wasn't listening.
which has a full stop and comma next to each other and looks hideous.

However, I do personally think the full stop inside the quotes is redundant and would remove it, unless it made a real difference to the sentence meaning.

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