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20085203 No.20085203 [Reply] [Original]

>Why yes, I do use guillemets instead of quotation marks, how could you tell?

>> No.20085219

>>20085203
WOW, YOU ARE SO BASED

>> No.20085228

Now that you mention this, i realize that it is quiet common to use them yet i never have. Maybe because i rarely write direct speech.

>> No.20085244

>>20085203
Why would you do such a thing? I have never seen this before.

>> No.20085248

>>20085244
a lot of countries still use them.

>> No.20085275

>>20085244
The absolute state of Anglo « readers »

>> No.20085396

>>20085275
>guillemets
not in greek or latin, who cares about this 3rd world convention

>> No.20085577

>>20085396
giga mutt cope. stop uttering those names freak you're not worthy of them

>> No.20085588

>>20085203
>guillemets
boy thats a hard word to type into google to find out what it means but i got there
you seem pretty cool and probably are a real writer

>> No.20085603

I just «discovered» I can «write» them «directly» with «my» «keyboard»
«AltGr» + «z» or «x»
Why don't «««they»»» indicate it clearly?

>> No.20085641

>>20085603
They don't want you to know, mass awarness of guillemetes would topple «««their»»» rat system

>> No.20085677

>>20085641
Now I just have to learn who to type the — and «««they»»»'re over

>> No.20086210

>>20085203
Why yes, I use them in inverted order like a »Deutscher«.

>> No.20086418

>>20085577
it's true though, nobody cares about your shit modern convention, it doesn't appear in any classical texts.
go cry about it in whatever swamp tongue you speak on whatever 3rdworldchan one of your mud hut dwellers has managed to code, if it exists

>> No.20086428

>>20086418
Neither do English-style quotation marks

>> No.20086444

>>20086428
who ever said anything about quotation marks, retard?

>> No.20086502

>>20086418
why so mad mutt, you shouldn't be allowed to even type the words latin or greek, they are above your feeble mind. keep raging like a dog barbarian, lmaoing so hard rn

>> No.20086518
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20086518

>>20086502
>lmaoing so hard rn

>> No.20086519

>>20085603
«me too»

>> No.20086560

I make extensive use off ellipsis and [sic] to make quotes work better with my needs and count on the fact that almost no one will bother looking up the original quote. Quoting is an art form.

>> No.20086721

>>20086560
>ellipsis
Hate these passive-aggressive ominous dot dot dots. Only someone boiling with enough rage to murder someone uses them unironically. You aren't making your quotes work better. You are making them seem more foreboding and evil.

>> No.20086744

>>20085603
On mine it's AltGr and the square brackets. Cool! This is exactly the kind of touch I needed to give my unfinished book that sophisticated touch, that je ne sais quoi, to make it truly stand out and get published! Yes, YES!

>> No.20087024

I never use any punctuation

>> No.20087156

>>20087024
Spaces are punctuation.

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>>20085203
But you're quoting him with an arrow though?

>> No.20087188

>>20085244
Maybe you need to represent thought-speech between shape shifting teenagers.

>> No.20087191

>>20086444
You're a retard, you implied it here >>20085396

>> No.20087219

>>20085219
holy shit cum genius

>> No.20087481

>not just putting quotations in italics

>> No.20087520

>>20087481
>t. puts book titles in quotes

>> No.20087541

>>20087156
thegreeksthatspokekoineandwroteonscrollshadtherightofitspacingandpunctuationaremerelyspeedbumpstoproperconveyanceofknowledge

>> No.20087572

>>20087541
Nah, spaces are pretty great, as are punctuation marks in general. They allow more complex ideas to be formed more succinctly. If punctuation is a speed bump for you than you are either a moron or never bothered to understand their use.

>> No.20087592

>>20087572
I was being facetious but I guess it didn't track, my bad.

>> No.20087719

>>20087592
i was being facetious but I guess it didn't track, my bad. Actually I was just ignoring your bad joke with pedantry.

>> No.20087806

>>20086518
kek. the only reason to ever type quotes like they do is to a) be an attention seeking faggot or b) live in some backwater no one gives two shits about

>> No.20087807

>>20087592
>>20087719
faggots the both of you. ur posting sucks. my day is ruined. Fuck you