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„“ is standard German usage and taught for handwriting. Angular quotation marks are a bit old-fashioned, and are usually found in (old) books.
by 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.