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jji7skyline · 2011-09-26 19:17:07

True or False... this sentence is properly punctuated...

"Hey!" replied John.

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False!

You see, to be properly puntuated, you'd have to use proper curly quotation marks like this!

“Hey!” replied John.

These curly quotation marks are not on the standard US keyboard.

What about the straight quotations marks you ask?

They are from the days of the typewriter. You see, when the typewriter was invented, they substituted the two opening and closing curly quotation marks for straight ones, so that one key could be used for both.

Even then, professional type-setters would have used opening and closing curly brackets.

So now you've got something to tell your teacher when he/she shows you a sentence that is supposed to have proper quotation marks! big_smile

Wickimen · 2011-09-26 19:18:40

Well, unless you want to copy and paste all the time, there is no difference on a forum where “ shows as ".

jji7skyline · 2011-09-26 19:20:37

Wickimen wrote:
Well, unless you want to copy and paste all the time, there is no difference on a forum where “ shows as ".

They look different to me... tongue

And you can always use alt codes for them smile

kayybee · 2011-09-26 19:20:55

However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct. smile

veggieman001 · 2011-09-26 19:21:44

yueah it doesnt matter

veggieman001 · 2011-09-26 19:22:57

kayybee wrote:
However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct.

it's not the font
it's the software you're writing it it, like ms word etc.

kayybee · 2011-09-26 19:24:26

veggieman001 wrote:
kayybee wrote:
However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct.
it's not the font
it's the software you're writing it it, like ms word etc.

But some fonts include the curly ones. Some don't. The font I'm making doesn't.

Okay. It's the font and the program. There.

The unicode is 201C and D.

“This is proper quotes. Happy?” kayybee says.

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veggieman001 · 2011-09-26 19:25:42

kayybee wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
kayybee wrote:
However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct.
it's not the font
it's the software you're writing it it, like ms word etc.
But some fonts include the curly ones. Some don't. The font I'm making doesn't.

Okay. It's the font and the program. There.

yes
but the font doesn't automatically do it on it's own

kayybee · 2011-09-26 19:26:20

I know. Read the last sentence.

(before the edit)

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veggieman001 · 2011-09-26 19:27:27

kayybee wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
kayybee wrote:
However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct. :)
it's not the font
it's the software you're writing it it, like ms word etc.
But some fonts include the curly ones. Some don't. The font I'm making doesn't.

Okay. It's the font and the program. There.

The unicode is 201C and D.

“This is proper quotes. Happy?” kayybee says.

:D
okay

777w · 2011-09-26 19:28:03

interesting

jji7skyline · 2011-09-26 19:28:45

kayybee wrote:
However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct.

There are no such fonts. I think you are confused with software? Some programs such as MS Word automatically do this. smile

zawicki1fromyoutube · 2011-09-26 19:29:04

jji7skyline wrote:
True or False... this sentence is properly punctuated...

"Hey!" replied John.
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False!
You see, to be properly puntuated, you'd have to use proper curly quotation marks like this!

“Hey!” replied John.

These curly quotation marks are not on the standard US keyboard.

What about the straight quotations marks you ask?

They are from the days of the typewriter. You see, when the typewriter was invented, they substituted the two opening and closing curly quotation marks for straight ones, so that one key could be used for both.

Even then, professional type-setters would have used opening and closing curly brackets.

So now you've got something to tell your teacher when he/she shows you a sentence that is supposed to have proper quotation marks!

Using just the " is still good punctuation. It's just another way of writing it. Just like how people write the letter a like shown here, or kind of like a circle with a line. It's not incorrect, it's an alternate.

kayybee · 2011-09-26 19:36:03

jji7skyline wrote:
kayybee wrote:
However, there are some fonts (obviously not this one) that will automatically curl the quotations up if it's at the beginning of a word and down if it's at the end of a word. So if I typed that in a specific font, it would be correct.
There are no such fonts. I think you are confused with software? Some programs such as MS Word automatically do this.

But there are fonts that don't even have the curly quotes.

There are fonts that do though.

AnimeCreatorArtist · 2011-09-26 19:50:30

(/ºдº)/ -KNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!111

Wickimen · 2011-09-26 19:58:24

“These quotation marks look more awesome, though, don’t you think? All official and stuff.”

videogame9 · 2011-09-26 20:07:45

I've always wanted to be on an iceberg.

JJROCKER · 2011-09-26 20:10:01

Thanks big_smile I'll get my English teacher with that.

Wickimen · 2011-09-26 20:10:04

videogame9 wrote:
I've always wanted to be on an iceberg.

“Tip the iceberg! TIP TIP TIP!”

rabbit1131 · 2011-09-26 21:55:21

“This is proper quotes. Happy?” kayybee says. “No! I'm not!” Rabbit1131 shouts in a hysterical tone.

jji7skyline · 2011-09-27 20:07:46

JJROCKER wrote:
Thanks I'll get my English teacher with that.

You're welcome! smile

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