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I don’t know what you mean by “obscure quote styles”. Did you read the link? You’ll see that it includes > Em-dash, an alternative to the quotation dash You c
by wwalexander 3y ago
I don’t know what you mean by “obscure quote styles”. Did you read the link? You’ll see that it includes
> Em-dash, an alternative to the quotation dash
You confidently asserted the em-dash as the correct choice for quotation attribution which, if not outright incorrect, is certainly not the most or the only canonical choice. Nothing obscure in style about it!
- LegionMammal978 3y agoThe point is that a "quotation dash" (i.e., a dash that precedes a quotation, used in place of or accompanying quotation marks in many languages, as your link explains) is not the same thing as the dash used for quotation attributions. An em-dash is an alternative to a proper quotation dash when used to precede a quotation, but is generally itself considered the proper dash for attribution [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Attribution_of_quote_sour...
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- wwalexander 3y agoI stand corrected!