• QuazarOmegaA
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    1 year ago

    This hurts my programmer soul, I’ll start escaping quotation marks instead

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Being a programmer finally won out over my writing background. For example, I know the rule in the US is to include punctuation inside the quotation marks, but I just can’t do it anymore if the punctuation mark is not actually part of the quote. “The British do it right, in my opinion”.