If that's a preference for weird quotations, your brain must be even colder than I thought. Can I get you a hat—perhaps one with two cans of warm, tasteless beer strapped to the sides—to heat it up again?

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m a Fahrenheit defender but also a punctuation outside of quotations defender.

The only things inside the quotation marks should be the original quote itself. If the punctuation wasn’t part of the original quote, it should be outside the marks. I will die on this hill.

If I’m going to my real extreme position, what’s inside of quotation marks should be almost completely ignored by things outside them. You should have to double punctuation.

Example sentence : Jane told me “It’s hot outside today.”, and I said it’s only 70 degrees.

The period was part of Jane’s sentence, and should be included. My sentence however, had not concluded, and needs a comma after the quote and a period to end the sentence.

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Allegedly, the “correct” way to write that sentence would be: Jane told me “It’s hot outside today,” and I said it’s only 70 degrees.

But this is garbage nonsense. Jane didn’t use a comma. Jane’s sentence was “It’s hot outside today.”, where are you picking up that comma from and where did her period go?

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

as I said before what really matters is if it looks wrong and that looks very wrong, making it incorrect. Im sorry i don't make the rules

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

punctuation inside or outside of quotes depends on the content

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

no it doesn't it depends on if it looks wrong and it looks wrong

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

That's what I thought but I couldn't tell you the content it depends on to save my life. I'm two ticks above Neanderthal , I think.