• topherclay@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I remember the those angled brackets being the way they spoke telepathically, right? What is the significance with those quotes ending in commas?

    • scops@reddthat.com
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      I’m guessing the brackets are just supposed to be a direct replacement for double quote symbols.

      So the proper grammar of:

      “This is an example,” she said.

      Is the same as:

      <This is an example,> she said.

        • wieson@feddit.org
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          20 hours ago

          French does, doesn’t it?
          Also in German literature, but only printed books not newspapers.

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            17 hours ago

            Not as a primary, they use it for when a quotation is nested inside another quotation

            Edit: although maybe they use it in practice instead of following the theoretical grammar, like a lot of people using computer quotation marks (U+0022 ") although those are not supposed to be used outside very few languages