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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Replying to @mwichary
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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Replying to @mwichary
Dumb quotes just steamroll all over conventions, stories, and traditions captured in quotation marks evolving differently around the world.
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Replying to @mwichary
but we wouldn't call Finnish's traditional quotes “dumb” quotes, even though they are as ”unmatched” as straight quotes...
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Replying to @hoverbird @mwichary
"smart" quote replacement steamrolls over a conventions, too, albeit newer ones. conventionally, I press a key and get a character
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Replying to @hoverbird @mwichary
Also (but separately), most auto smart quote replacement is way too naïve and gets things like “rock ’n’ roll” wrong.
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See all the headlines like “You might be a ❛90s child if…”.
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Replying to @vruba @hoverbird
But to be honest, I’ll take that once in a while over dumb quotes 100% of the time.
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Replying to @mwichary
I'd take perfectly readable straight quotes 90% of the time over the &lquo;catastrophic&rquo; failures auto-replacement causes
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Replying to @hoverbird @mwichary
N.B. I think typographical quotes are beautiful; I just think the solution is to put them on keyboards and make people care.
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Oh, that I *completely* disagree with. :·)
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