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I am from the Netherlands. The use of low opening quotation marks („hello world") is extremely uncommon and generally considered archaic — so much so that I for
by niek_pas 6y ago
I am from the Netherlands. The use of low opening quotation marks („hello world") is extremely uncommon and generally considered archaic — so much so that I forgot they even existed until I read this article.
- tgv 6y agoI was just putting my books back on the shelves, and I've got two copies of De Kleine Johannes, one printed in 1919, and one printed in 1983. The first one has the „low quotation” marks, the last one single, ‘high quotation’ marks, but they are mirrored (the first one is a sort of upside-down comma).