Rhaedas comments on Nerd-fight (2025-11-01)

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 28 points 10 months ago (8 children)

If it was a period I can see the argument (and I'm still not clear on what's right), but a comma? I can't see any reason why you would include a comma within the quotes. Even if the quote had a comma in the original, you're quoting the part before the comma.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I mean, I'm pretty certain I was taught in school to do things like this:

"It's only a block away," she said.

And, yeah. I definitely prefer (all else being equal):

"It's only a block away", she said.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Logically I prefer it but visually, I hate the way the quotation mark makes a weird space before the comma

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Hrm. What would you think of a ligature or unicode trick that would let you make roughly-speaking on "character" that put the quotes directly above the comma and was only as wide as the wider of the two individual characters? I could maybe get behind that.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't mind it as shorthand in writing but I think it'd just be weird to have a defined symbol for something so specific

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[–] webpack@ani.social 2 points 10 months ago

well if you do it the other way there's a space between the quote and the letter so the only difference is if the space is above or below (personally I prefer "", probably because of coding)

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