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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 u

by 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.