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Telofy commented on the word ‟
The double high-reversed-9 quotation mark.
Okay, it’s not really a pet peeve, but to me it looks kinda awkward in an English text and it was constantly bugging me (a bit) when I was reading Gene Wolfe’s ‟There Are Doors”. ^^
(Doesn’t it look as if the editor felt direct speech was somewhat icky?)
January 31, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word ‟
The 66 marks are supposed to open speech, as far as I knew and 99 to close it. It looks a lot less awkward like that (but I suppose it also has a lot to do with what you were brought up with).
February 1, 2010