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    That's something a lot of people don't understand, even if it's a opinion piece it needs to be well researched. You should try to represent as many sides as possible including your own, otherwise it's intellectually dishonest.

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  • Sorry for nitpicking, but question marks shouldn't be outside quotation marks, since are they not a part of quote? English isn't my first language tho.

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  • cryptkeeper0 said:
    That's something a lot of people don't understand, even if it's a opinion piece it needs to be well researched. You should try to represent as many sides as possible including your own, otherwise it's intellectually dishonest.

    intellectually dishonest like Joe Rogan

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  • drakin said:
    Sorry for nitpicking, but question marks shouldn't be outside quotation marks, since are they not a part of quote? English isn't my first language tho.

    Yes, in this instance you are correct.

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  • drakin said:
    Sorry for nitpicking, but question marks shouldn't be outside quotation marks, since are they not a part of quote? English isn't my first language tho.

    It's... complicated. Traditionally, the punctuation for the end of the sentence always goes inside the quotation mark, even when it's not part of the original quote. But it's really illogical to do it that way, and it's becoming more common for people to do it the other way, even if it's not "correct".

    (like I just did. That's the wrong way to do it, but I prefer it for exactly the reason you stated.)

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  • 5thearth said:
    It's... complicated. Traditionally, the punctuation for the end of the sentence always goes inside the quotation mark, even when it's not part of the original quote. But it's really illogical to do it that way, and it's becoming more common for people to do it the other way, even if it's not "correct".

    (like I just did. That's the wrong way to do it, but I prefer it for exactly the reason you stated.)

    Ladies and Gentlemen, the English Language. Its not one, nor two, but three in a trenchcoat, knocking the other languages out and stealing whatever it can from the other languages

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  • 5thearth said:
    It's... complicated. Traditionally, the punctuation for the end of the sentence always goes inside the quotation mark, even when it's not part of the original quote. But it's really illogical to do it that way, and it's becoming more common for people to do it the other way, even if it's not "correct".

    (like I just did. That's the wrong way to do it, but I prefer it for exactly the reason you stated.)

    Afaik, in the case of a quote that ends a sentence, if both the sentence and quote end with either an exclamation point or period, it goes inside the quotation marks. If the quote is a question, it goes inside. If the sentence that contains the quote is a question but the quote is not, it goes outside.

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  • How'd this world where as far as I can recall no menstruating species have even been seen so far both get a euphemism for periods AND have it be so widespread that two of species who don't menstruate would be familiar with it?

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  • Getting school flashbacks.

    This artist REALLY does well at capturing what it's like to be a teenager. I mean that seriously.

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  • 5thearth said:
    It's... complicated. Traditionally, the punctuation for the end of the sentence always goes inside the quotation mark, even when it's not part of the original quote. But it's really illogical to do it that way, and it's becoming more common for people to do it the other way, even if it's not "correct".

    (like I just did. That's the wrong way to do it, but I prefer it for exactly the reason you stated.)

    I think it started with the manual printing press. It was easier for the typesetter to put the punctuation inside the quote mark (especially periods and commas), then that just became "the rule" even though it doesn't make sense anymore.

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  • cryptkeeper0 said:
    That's something a lot of people don't understand, even if it's a opinion piece it needs to be well researched. You should try to represent as many sides as possible including your own, otherwise it's intellectually dishonest.

    Research? Representing all sides? Honesty? Where have you been in the past six years of Karen-backed shitflinging that is now synonymous with journalism? Or the past century for that matter?

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  • wolf_stawalker said:
    Ladies and Gentlemen, the English Language. Its not one, nor two, but three in a trenchcoat, knocking the other languages out and stealing whatever it can from the other languages

    Which is why it's the most widely spoken language in the world today. The fact that it's a slapshod amalgam of a dozen other languages means that a wider range of people can find familiarity.
    Try teaching yourself Latin sometime, you'll beg to go back to English.

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  • wolf_stawalker said:
    Ladies and Gentlemen, the English Language. Its not one, nor two, but three in a trenchcoat, knocking the other languages out and stealing whatever it can from the other languages

    That image is quite right. From what I learned in my college classes, it's actually Old English, French and Latin in a trenchoat. x)

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