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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Replying to @hoverbird @mwichary
if most people never start to care, then maybe straight quotes will be the future. wouldn't be the first time they'd changed!
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Replying to @hoverbird
That’s indeed possible. Typography and conventions change. Personally, I would see it as a loss.
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PS Enjoying this conversation! Thanks for sharing a different point of view.
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Replying to @mwichary @hoverbird
I blab about those things in part so that it’s possible for me to be exposed to those and be held accountable.
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Replying to @mwichary
thanks for caring so much about this stuff! most of my beef is with the bad UIs, which have turned people off smart quotes already
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