I’m fighting the USA by using “logical quotation marks”, and fighting the UK by not calling them “British quotations”.
I’m fighting the USA by using “logical quotation marks”, and fighting the UK by not calling them “British quotations”.
i am confused.
my understanding was that the standard usage in british english was to use ‘[text]’ for the first layer, and then a quote inside a quote was “[text]”, and then after that they alternate; that the american standard was like that but with single and double quotes swapped; and then that the vertical quotes ("[text]" and '[text]') were the result of ANSI wanting to only allocate 2 codepoints to quotation marks, not four.
ohhhhh you’re talking about placement not style, yeah im american and i agree ending punctuation after close quote makes way more sense
to add to what i said: i put punctuation in the quotation if it was a part of it and outside if it wasn't. If the punctuation messes with the quotation e.g. “I say we leave.” and I want to include it in a sentence without breaking the sentence I just omit the punctuation e.g. ‘“I say we leave”, he whispered nervously.’
but of course