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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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
Dumb quotes just steamroll all over conventions, stories, and traditions captured in quotation marks evolving differently around the world.
but we wouldn't call Finnish's traditional quotes “dumb” quotes, even though they are as ”unmatched” as straight quotes...
"smart" quote replacement steamrolls over a conventions, too, albeit newer ones. conventionally, I press a key and get a character
In the narrow sense, that argument doesn’t fly ever since 1878 and the invention of Shift.
disagree. two keys pressed in convention act as a third key. they always produce the same result, like a typographer picking type
I do find it sad that it's so hard to CHOOSE to use typographical quotes on today's physical keyboards... but there is hope.
software keyboards can reinstate and even privilege typographical quotes. and perhaps they should! paired delimiters are great.
but it's worth noting that Finnish folk don't seem to have a problem reading their unpaired quotes. And that quote replacement...
*automatic quote replacement has been caused typographical ugliness and human headaches ever since it was introduced.
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