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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but we wouldn't call Finnish's traditional quotes “dumb” quotes, even though they are as ”unmatched” as straight quotes...
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"smart" quote replacement steamrolls over a conventions, too, albeit newer ones. conventionally, I press a key and get a character
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In the narrow sense, that argument doesn’t fly ever since 1878 and the invention of Shift.
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(Keys started being somewhat abstracted away then.)
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I realize that there are some domains (e.g. programming) where being literal is required…
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…but I see no downsides to having proper quotes as default, and I haven’t seen much confusion in three years at Medium.
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