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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by abduhl on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @09:19AM (#28538711)
The question mark is supposed to go outside the quote if it is not part of the quote, FYI. Same with exclamation points. Internalizing only happens with periods and commas.
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by JasonFruit on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:08AM (#28539221)
That's what it looked like to me, too, but isn't it telling that we can't treat punctuation consistently?
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by CiceroCiceronis on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:22AM (#28539386)
We can treat it consistently, it just takes a full book-length style guide to do so. Exceptions of exceptions are a frustrating form of consistency, but they are consistent nevertheless.
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by JasonFruit on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:10AM (#28540129)
In any colloquial sense, the existence of exceptions means there is inconsistency.
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