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This has bothered me for decades, why was this ever the case to begin with?
by mostlysimilar 2y ago
This has bothered me for decades, why was this ever the case to begin with?
- BalinKing 2y agoI'd presume it's the same motivation behind quotes in TeX (`foo' and ``bar'')—maybe typewriters didn't use to have true curly quotes, or something? EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick#As_surrogate_of_apostrophe_or_(opening)_single_quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick#As_surrogate_of_apost... seems relevant