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Which languages prefer straight quotes? Wikipedia doesn't mention any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
by zokier 4y ago
Which languages prefer straight quotes? Wikipedia doesn't mention any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoLooks like hair splitting to me, they are all interchangeable. Apparently I used Dutch an Danish variants and nobody ever batted an eye. Cursive quotes look like just cursive version of straight quotes, you can't possibly differentiate them.
- bloak 4y agoQuotation marks arguably depend on the country more than on the language, so Switzerland quotes like «this» in French, German and Italian, while the Germans, at least, don't quote like that. It seems that Sweden and Finland use the same character for opening and closing quotes, like ”this”, which is similar to using straight quotes.
- GolDDranks 4y agoI was going to say "Finnish" (that's my native language), but to my surprise, after checking it, we use "”" after all. (We use that both as the opening and closing quotation mark.)