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Highlighting the quotes reminds me of a gripe I have with quoting styles in print: When a quote consists of two paragraphs, the first paragraph does not get an
by joepvd 11y ago
Highlighting the quotes reminds me of a gripe I have with quoting styles in print: When a quote consists of two paragraphs, the first paragraph does not get an ending quote:
He said, "The first sentence.
"The second sentence," he continued.
Somehow my mind gets triggered pretty intensely by these unbalanced quotes.
Does anyone have some background?
- skykooler 11y agoI believe the reasoning for this is that if you had two people talking, and there were end quotes after the first sentence, it would be parsed as the second sentence being said by the second person.
- joepvd 11y agoIt might be. Most of the time, however, it is just a single person getting a longer quote.