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The use of « and » instead of " and "

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2011-01-18 12:22:05 in General
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
English, people.  Do you type it?

Comments

  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    It amused me when one of the mods did it in a thread title on the other site.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Wow, the TvTropes forum is The Other Forum now, huh?

    I don't think it makes a difference, and sometimes it amuses me.
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    (void)
    Yes, and in things I actually have to turn in I use «"» in my quotes.  But here, the need to nest quotes surpasses any need to follow English/American cultural norms.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    edited 2011-01-18 14:22:09
    Because you never know what you might see.
    "You can nest quotes in English 'like this', though."

    I kinda like guillemets, though.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    Do you often need to nest quotes beyond the two levels supplied by standard English quotes?
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    edited 2011-01-18 14:45:59
    (void)
    No, but I often want to nest things that contain "s and it's a pain to convert them to ' in order to nest them.

    And I occasionally do nest things more than two levels.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2011-01-18 15:01:35
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I stopped caring about alternating " and '.

    I just use either, as long as I put a matching one at the end.

    People can count.

    Similarly, in mathematics, I will use fifty ( and ).

    (1.34 + 5.28 * e^ (3 i) ) / (6.25 log (2.54) * int( from 0 to infin, 1/x^2, dx))
  • NyktosNyktos
    a little muffled
    @Khwarizmi: I'd assumed they just copied them Tzetze's namechange request.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Probably.  Still made me laugh, though.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    I find this very annoying, too, regardless of the language.

    «Wow, the TvTropes forum is The Other Forum now, huh?»

    Would you prefer The Forum That Must Not Be Named?
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Meh.
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