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Thanks for the information but jeez that makes me feel uncomfortable for some reason.

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It’s like the unclosed paren (but correct (craziness).

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I’ve never seen this, but maybe since sentences with a parenthesis in it very rarely get a line break in the middle?

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

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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”.

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So you’re telling me “The British do it right,”.

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As a native English speaker I feel like I get a say in this. This is the worst rule I’ve seen proposed. Unbalanced quotation marks are confusing as hell.

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While we’re at it, putting punctuation inside quotation marks when it’s not actually part of the quote also needs to be fixed. And the whole he/she thing.

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Yeah what the hell. It’s like having unmatched parentheses when coding.

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YES! I’ve seen this formatting a lot in published books but never on the internet.

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WTF, I thought it was wrong. This is weird.

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