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Is ,comma-backtick` some personal quirk of yours, or is it some standard I'm not aware of?

loeber 3y ago
European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.
- fredoliveira 3y ago
  > European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high Wouldn't say it's "common", because IIRC that's only the case in Germany and Austria.
  - pitkali 3y ago
    Also in Polish, actually.
    - Jenda_ 3y ago
      And some others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
  - FinnKuhn 3y ago
    however in German you would use two tick quotation marks like „this".
- sph 3y ago
  Germany != Europe. The French use « », Italians use ‘regular’ “quotes”, etc. Strangely enough, this is the first time I see your style of quote, in two decades on the Internet.
  - replwoacause 3y ago
    Yeah I’m surprised at how rare this is to see. I guess that means all Germans don’t follow this convention?
    - illiac786 3y ago
      I believe it should be double, „like this“, not single quotes.
    - helboi4 3y ago
      Other countries use it too. I'm pretty sure that Spain does.
      - NoInkling 3y ago
        Nope, Spain uses « » (though mostly only in formal writing these days) or English-style quotes.
  - lock-the-spock 3y ago
    https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
- replwoacause 3y ago
  Interestingly, the author does not follow this convention on his personal site (first link in profile) … instead option for the ‘single quote’ form instead.
stavros 3y ago
It's ‚comma-apostrophe‘, actually.
- godelski 3y ago
  ,comma-apostrophe'? Only place I've see the backtick used for apostrophe is latex. And even then half the people don't know about it.
  - stavros 3y ago
    Sure, but there's no backtick in the GP's comment. Only an apostrophe.
    - godelski 3y ago
      Wait what? I see ,comma-backtick` whereas I wrote ,comma-apostrophe' I copy pasted both btw. You see them both as '? I see GP as having ` and me having ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick
      - stavros 3y ago
        tcmb used ‚comma-apostrophe‘. nsxwolf asked "Is ,comma-backtick` some personal quirk of yours, or is it some standard I'm not aware of?" I'm pointing out that nsxwolf was wrong to ask about comma-backtick, because tcmb used comma-apostrophe.
        roryokane 3y ago
        Both are wrong. tcmb didn’t use ‚comma-apostrophe’ – they opened with , U+201A SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK (not U+002C COMMA) and closed with ‘ U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (otherwise known as an open single quotation mark). This matches the German convention described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German.
tcmb 3y ago
It‘s what my phone made out of two presses of the same (single quote) button.
lock-the-spock 3y ago
To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...

European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.

fredoliveira 3y ago
> European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high Wouldn't say it's "common", because IIRC that's only the case in Germany and Austria.
- pitkali 3y ago
  Also in Polish, actually.
  - Jenda_ 3y ago
    And some others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
- FinnKuhn 3y ago
  however in German you would use two tick quotation marks like „this".
sph 3y ago
Germany != Europe. The French use « », Italians use ‘regular’ “quotes”, etc. Strangely enough, this is the first time I see your style of quote, in two decades on the Internet.
- replwoacause 3y ago
  Yeah I’m surprised at how rare this is to see. I guess that means all Germans don’t follow this convention?
  - illiac786 3y ago
    I believe it should be double, „like this“, not single quotes.
  - helboi4 3y ago
    Other countries use it too. I'm pretty sure that Spain does.
    - NoInkling 3y ago
      Nope, Spain uses « » (though mostly only in formal writing these days) or English-style quotes.
- lock-the-spock 3y ago
  https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
replwoacause 3y ago
Interestingly, the author does not follow this convention on his personal site (first link in profile) … instead option for the ‘single quote’ form instead.

stavros 3y ago

It's ‚comma-apostrophe‘, actually.

godelski 3y ago
,comma-apostrophe'? Only place I've see the backtick used for apostrophe is latex. And even then half the people don't know about it.
- stavros 3y ago
  Sure, but there's no backtick in the GP's comment. Only an apostrophe.
  - godelski 3y ago
    Wait what? I see ,comma-backtick` whereas I wrote ,comma-apostrophe' I copy pasted both btw. You see them both as '? I see GP as having ` and me having ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick
    - stavros 3y ago
      tcmb used ‚comma-apostrophe‘. nsxwolf asked "Is ,comma-backtick` some personal quirk of yours, or is it some standard I'm not aware of?" I'm pointing out that nsxwolf was wrong to ask about comma-backtick, because tcmb used comma-apostrophe.
      - roryokane 3y ago
        Both are wrong. tcmb didn’t use ‚comma-apostrophe’ – they opened with , U+201A SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK (not U+002C COMMA) and closed with ‘ U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (otherwise known as an open single quotation mark). This matches the German convention described on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German.

tcmb 3y ago

It‘s what my phone made out of two presses of the same (single quote) button.

lock-the-spock 3y ago

To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-specifications/character-encoding/use-of-quotation-marks-in-the-different-languages https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...