• halloween_spookster@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Putting question marks or exclamation points after “quotation marks”! I’ve never understood the point of putting the punctuation inside the quotation unless it’s part of the quotation itself.

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      Quote is full sentence: inside. Quote is part of sentence or word: outside.

      Eg:

      “Oh no!” he gasped.

      And

      Apparently she’s “done with me”!

      Love, an editor.

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      This is how you’re supposed to do it in Dutch.

      The teacher said “silence!”.

      Vs

      The teacher said “silence”!

      Mean something completely different. Although a few large literature publishers do punctuation before bracket because of translation ease, and novels almost never contain partial quotes anyway AND they include the optional comma at all times, which causes

      “Silence!,” said the teacher.

      Shudder

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      Especially also when you’re using them to be facetious.

      He’s “talented”.

      He’s “talented.”

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      For me it depends on if you are quoting someone (punctuation inside quote) or just using a phrase like “woke” (punctuation outside).