Hot take: if the punctuation wasn't in the original quotation then putting it in the quotation marks is a lie.https://twitter.com/BrianaReports/status/1303865286165229568 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I 100% never understood why it goes in theres
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
The primary reason for always putting the period at the end of a sentence inside the quotes was practical When printing was done with physical type, the " and the . were shaped such that they go directly over each other, making it look like ."
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If you tried to reverse the order to "., the . would just fall off the end of the line because it had nothing to attach to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Oh so it’s a bullshit anachronism people need to get the fuck over
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren
A lot of language in publishing still comes from old-school typesetting Like reason newspaper people misspell the word "lead" "lede" when talking about the first ("leading") paragraph -- or the abstraction of what *should* be in the first paragraph, "burying the lede"
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To disambiguate from the existing word "lead" (like the metal), meaning the strip of bare metal used to align the letters on the page on old school printing You will still occasionally hear "lead" used to mean vertical whitespace between lines of text ("a 0.1 inch lead")
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