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		JasonFruit on Sept 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctua... That's what it looked like to me, too, but isn't it telling that we can't treat punctuation consistently?

CiceroCiceronis on Sept 15, 2021 [–]

We can treat it consistently, it just takes a full book-length style guide to do so. Exceptions of exceptions are a frustrating form of consistency, but they are consistent nevertheless.

JasonFruit on Sept 15, 2021 | [–]

In any colloquial sense, the existence of exceptions means there is inconsistency.

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