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    1. deech‏ @deech 27 Jan 2017

      TIL multi-paragraph quotes start each paragraph except the last with an unclosed quote: "Blah, blah. "More blah, blah. "Now I'm done."

      4 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
    2. Tpol Chico‏ @tpolecat 27 Jan 2017

      is there a word for this kind of discovery? I have had a few and they're remarkably unsettling.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Dale Wijnand‏ @dwijnand 27 Jan 2017
      Replying to @tpolecat @extempore2 @deech

      Surely the germans have some compound word for it, right @larsr_h? :)

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Jon Pretty‏ @propensive 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @dwijnand @tpolecat and

      So, I did actually notice this when reading computer magazines aged about 8.

      4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Paolo G. Giarrusso‏ @Blaisorblade 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @propensive @dwijnand and

      Same here. Confused I never investigate this to death. No Wikipedia back then I guess?

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. deech‏ @deech 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @Blaisorblade @propensive and

      I just noticed it yesterday when I read a newspaper article with a long quote.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Jon Pretty‏ @propensive 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @deech @Blaisorblade and

      Relatedly, I never knew why people say "quote, unquote" *before* the quote. Any ideas?

      7:19 AM - 28 Jan 2017
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        1. Maggie Leber‏ @MaggieL 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @propensive @deech and

          When a wee sprout I was schooled by punctuation in RAH's "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" 1/2

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        2. Maggie Leber‏ @MaggieL 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @MaggieL @propensive and

          Dialogue spkr quotes Macbeth quoting rhetorical person, resulting in three nested close quotes 2/2

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        1. Maggie Leber‏ @MaggieL 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @propensive @deech and

          "To the rear, march! ‘Lay on, Macduff, and curs'd be him who first cries, "Hold, enough!" ‘ "

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        2. Jon Pretty‏ @propensive 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @MaggieL @deech and

          I was hoping to invoke another level of nesting when you quoted it... ;)

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        1. Maggie Leber‏ @MaggieL 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @propensive @deech and

          "quote, unquote" because the 4-finger scarequote gesture not yet invented

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