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Outside Europe I rarely see <<>>, in fact I never saw <<>> on the internet even on European sites, truth be told I rarely read any websites from Europe that are
by augusto-moura 6y ago
Outside Europe I rarely see <<>>, in fact I never saw <<>> on the internet even on European sites, truth be told I rarely read any websites from Europe that are not in English so my opinion might be biased
- gnulinux 6y agoI've definitely seen ,,'' reading German literature (e.g. Kafka) and <<>> reading French literature. You're right about internet though, that is indeed interesting.
- MayeulC 6y agoWhile this is the prevalent quotation mark used in France, " starts to catch on a bit. In my opinion, it is mainly due to the fact that « and » are not present on French keyboard layouts (and rather rare in general): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Keyboard_layouts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Keyboard_layout... Another issue is that you are supposed to type a non-braking space inside, which is a hassle, and often not present on keyboards either. Word processors usually take care of both these issues, replacing " with the appropriate (opening or closing) guillemet + space. Spaces are also used in Switzerland, but narrow (&nnbsp; instead of ).
- veddox 6y ago„“ is standard German usage and taught for handwriting. Angular quotation marks are a bit old-fashioned, and are usually found in (old) books.
- masswerk 6y agoHowever, sometimes it's nice to have a third and even forth option when you have to deal with laterals, concepts, maybe foreign language expressions, quotes and nested quotes at the same time. So I'm using angular quotes occasionally, but not generally. "…" is genarally ok for casual writing and messaging, while „…“ is still standard for print.
- zdragnar 6y agoThey're more common in Asian languages, iirc- Chinese at least uses something much like them though far more obtuse (I think it is a different character, not just font anyway)
- Hasnep 6y agoChinese traditionally uses「X」and『X』for quotation marks but i have also seen “X”.
- zdragnar 6y agoAha! I just discovered that I confused their use of title marks 《…》with quotation marks, since American English uses quotation marks for both quotes and titles. I would have sworn that I had seen the title marks used for both as well, but it has been 10 years or so since I have had any real exposure.
- Bayart 6y agoI systematically use «» for quotation marks regardless of the language I'm writing in. I just feel anything else is wrong, even though I'm the one breaking typographic conventions. Those aren't rare in French-speaking communities (although " is dominant because of how bad the AZERTY layout is), and they're mandatory in press.