I also dislike this rule. Makes more sense to put it afterwords imo. Also, I didn't think it was a "rule".
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none of this shit is a rule unless you appeal to some authority, and even then it's really only useful for the sake of consistency (as in a style guide)
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I'm a programmer. In programs, these placements of the punctuation mark mean *completely* different things and I feel it in writing as well. When the punctuation belongs to the quoted text, I put it inside. When it belongs to the surrounding context, I put it outside.
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It's not just correct or incorrect typesetting to me. It's meaningful and intentional.
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smh it’s about scope, sometimes the punctuation belongs to the outside sentence and sometimes to the quotation
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This rule feels like it violates the sanctity of the quote, which should be reproduced with accuracy.
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It just looks ugly to me
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I violate it rather systematically. That is, I "do what makes sense", which usually conflicts with the rule, which demands inserting into quotations punctuation which has no part in what is quoted.
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Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes not so much
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If I were to write to an engineer, "The button should say 'Get started.'", I could get a period in the button label. This is why I can't follow that rule.
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That’s why we have backticks! You can say: The button should say `Get Started`.
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