This kind of stuff bothers me. I love “smart”/proper/typographical quotation marks for (at least) three reasons:
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1. Smart quotes are beautiful. Look at “smart” and how the quotation marks hold the word together in place.
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They know the difference between start and end. Imagine parentheses looking |like this| – this is what "dumb" quotes aspire to.
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2. Communication is about nuance. We all have that person we hate (or who hated us) just because we read the email we sent the wrong way.
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I am suspect of anything that removes nuance from writing, particularly if it’s easily solvable and/or done for the wrong reasons.
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3. Look at the Wikipedia page for quotation marks, specifically conventions in different locales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark …
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This, THIS is beautiful to me. „Polish quotations” are different than «French quotations». “American ones” are different than ‘U.K. ones’.pic.twitter.com/E6bCSSD3bm
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Dumb quotes just steamroll all over conventions, stories, and traditions captured in quotation marks evolving differently around the world.
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At the risk of peddling my own goods: Download Medium’s iOS app, switch between keyboards, and see the right quotation marks as you type.pic.twitter.com/4COzQbiWX9
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This is not rocket surgery. It makes me sad iPhone’s keyboard doesn’t do that automatically in all the apps. I’ve been waiting for 9 years.
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(Psst, @Apple. I’ll give you all the source code from Medium, for free. You’re better than this.)
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More on that, and quotation marks, from last year: https://medium.design/quotation-marks-c8993b54417c …
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And my god, Tweetbot’s auto-smartening of quotes. Please to Sherlock and enable everywhere!
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