Post A77l3GaFqTfZPo40iu by PunaisetPimpulat@qoto.org
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 (DIR) Post #A74RgdLsXxq0lWxDQu by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2021-05-09T10:56:33.251181Z
       
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       it bothers me that you're meant to put sentence-ending punctuation like . and ! and ? inside quotes, not outside
       
 (DIR) Post #A74RlkEkNNUNZD3UpM by tn5421@fedi.absturztau.be
       2021-05-09T10:57:28.887525Z
       
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       @izaya I think that depends on the context. It makes sense but looks dumb.
       
 (DIR) Post #A74RskdDJ6w2olqADY by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2021-05-09T10:58:43.682867Z
       
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       @tn5421 just a stupid convention, another one for the listI kinda get it for . because with a typewriter or writing by hand you can have the " and the . occupy the same spacebut ? and ! is annoying
       
 (DIR) Post #A74XJG7NMaUXltPLF2 by 2ck@qoto.org
       2021-05-09T11:56:53Z
       
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       @izaya You mean like:Did Dillon say, "I walked to the store?"vsDid Dillon say, "I walked to the store"?Honestly, I do the second since leaving school, but I think the first is what my high school English teacher wants me to do.
       
 (DIR) Post #A74XJGbrXEsVIRfglE by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2021-05-09T11:59:31.999360Z
       
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       @2ck I was taught to do the former in all casesit looks better but my brain says it's wrong because it's changing the contents of the quote
       
 (DIR) Post #A74XPIzXam2iQBcsam by tn5421@fedi.absturztau.be
       2021-05-09T12:00:39.526571Z
       
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       @2ck @izaya Dillon saying "I walked to the store" isn't a question, so I don't put the question mark inside the quotations in this case.
       
 (DIR) Post #A74dYtb7SbGuHh9wie by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2021-05-09T13:09:35Z
       
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       @izaya @2ck I wasn't taught either so I just do it the way I'd do it if writing the program.What do you think of a sentence like "Is the sky blue?"?
       
 (DIR) Post #A74yskRZIorIis02XQ by PunaisetPimpulat@qoto.org
       2021-05-09T17:08:27Z
       
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       @wolf480pl @izaya @2ck I have to say, that structure is very unusual, but to me it still looks perfectly coherent.
       
 (DIR) Post #A750Wh8J8AHNzabPai by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
       2021-05-09T17:26:54Z
       
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       @PunaisetPimpulat @izaya @2ck IMO that's the right way but I wouldn't be surprised if some humanists insisted it's wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #A75ndHmQgadf8v8q8m by brad@weeaboo.space
       2021-05-10T02:37:09.735157Z
       
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       @izaya IIRC AE and BE differ on this. I prefer the punctuation to be outside the quote, like how you'd quote a string in your shell or a program.
       
 (DIR) Post #A77l3GaFqTfZPo40iu by PunaisetPimpulat@qoto.org
       2021-05-11T01:17:36Z
       
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       @wolf480pl @izaya @2ck Having studies a little bit of calligraphy and the history of writing, I’m pretty sure some of these odd conventions came from necessity. Nowadays, in the age of infinite screen space, there’s no need to combine separate letters into ligatures or collapse multiple closing symbols into one. In the age of expensive vellum things were very different. However, that still doesn’t explain silent letters though. That’s just wasted space IMO.