Subject: Oh, that reminds me.
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Posted on: 2015-08-04 16:00:00 UTC

You had a question about double "speech marks" vs single 'quote marks' somewhere in the TOS beta, I think. It might be of interest to everyone, so I'll answer here.

The truth is, that's not actually a rule—in fact, the rule is to be consistent and only use different marks when you've got nested quotes, like if a character is quoting something out loud. (If you're wondering, the solution to an awkward situation of a quote butting up against dialogue is to rewrite the passage so that doesn't happen.)

I don't know where the tendency to use doubles for dialogue and singles for other material came from, though I'd love to find out. It's definitely non-standard. On the other hand, it seems to be more and more widely used, so for all I know it could become accepted. *shrugs*

~Neshomeh

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