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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To be a bit more specific you're talking about when printing was first done with physical type in like the 16th century, I don't know that any modern type set worked like that 40 years ago was also a time when printing was done with physical type, lol
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Replying to @HenryWHall @arthur_affect and
This is one of those weird things that somehow I'm aware of because my father was a type setter before becoming a photo engraver
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Replying to @HenryWHall @arthur_affect and
Here's a random ass fact: there was a point in time where photo engravers had to register with the secret service, if you were working as an engraver for a printer the Secret Service had your information
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oh yeah because it used to be their job to be the counterfeit money cops I encountered that in a Sue Grafton novel and was so confused
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Yeah the idea of an official government clandestine law enforcement service of any kind was still very new and controversial in the 19th century so after the USSS was created for the counterfeiting thing they kept getting "borrowed" for other stuff
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Abraham Lincoln, himself, did not have a "secret service", his official protection came from the Pinkertons (who did a wide range of things for the government on a contractor basis along with their most famous function as union-busters)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
There were also various members of the US military who hung around Lincoln and lived with him for a time providing protection on a less-formal basis but there may have been other reasons for that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
being unusually circumspect there arthur
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