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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Is this why they think ‘come’ is spelled with a k
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I don't actually know what that's referencing
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Replying to @Cybren @Nymphomachy
Oh yeah ha I'm sure there's something else "TC" stands for
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