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> It's not "imminently listenable", it's "eminently listenable". Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? A tiger ready to pounce on you in the jungle is

> It's not "imminently listenable", it's "eminently listenable". Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? A tiger ready to pounce on you in the jungle is an imminent danger; a great story read by a skilled voice actor is imminently listenable. Also, you put the comma and period outside your double quotes. We computer programmers often do this, but this is incorrect in American English: the punctuation goes inside the double quotes. In British English the punctuation does indeed go outside the quotes unless the punctuation is actually being quoted, but the British use single quotes.[1] American English: "Your color is changing," she said. British English: `Your colour is changing', she said. [1] https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/does-punctuation-go-inside-or-outside-quotation-marks/ https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/does-punctuation-go-insi...

permo-w 5y ago
>the British use single quotes That’s not true, or at least it’s not what I was taught at my British primary school, and it’s not what you see people use. Maybe historically that’s true, I don’t know. The current British consensus is to use double quotes. Sometimes you see single quotes in headlines when the author doesn’t want to imply that they’re making a direct quote
stefandesu 5y ago
I'm a non-native English speaker and I somewhat deliberately mix different parts of American and British English. For example, I usually use American spelling, but for some things (like "toward" vs. "towards") the British way (or rather the way which is more common in Britain compared to America) sounds "more right" to me. I also put commas/periods outside quotes because I could never understand why they should be inside.
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antonvs 5y ago
> Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? Apparently not, because the author has since corrected it. > the British use single quotes.[1] It's not that simple, because "the British" rather notoriously spread to many places. There are large ex-colony countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, where English is the primary language; and others where it's a major official language, like South Africa and India. When it comes to rules like the ones you mention, they tend to vary because of varying degrees of American vs. British influence, as well as local variation; and of course, this all changes over time. A better and more realistic treatment of the subject of punctuation in quotes can be found here: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm

permo-w 5y ago

>the British use single quotes That’s not true, or at least it’s not what I was taught at my British primary school, and it’s not what you see people use. Maybe historically that’s true, I don’t know. The current British consensus is to use double quotes. Sometimes you see single quotes in headlines when the author doesn’t want to imply that they’re making a direct quote

stefandesu 5y ago

I'm a non-native English speaker and I somewhat deliberately mix different parts of American and British English. For example, I usually use American spelling, but for some things (like "toward" vs. "towards") the British way (or rather the way which is more common in Britain compared to America) sounds "more right" to me. I also put commas/periods outside quotes because I could never understand why they should be inside.

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antonvs 5y ago

> Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? Apparently not, because the author has since corrected it. > the British use single quotes.[1] It's not that simple, because "the British" rather notoriously spread to many places. There are large ex-colony countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, where English is the primary language; and others where it's a major official language, like South Africa and India. When it comes to rules like the ones you mention, they tend to vary because of varying degrees of American vs. British influence, as well as local variation; and of course, this all changes over time. A better and more realistic treatment of the subject of punctuation in quotes can be found here: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm