• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com
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    20 days ago

    Punctuation goes inside quotes at the end of a sentence unless the quote has its own non-period punctuation. I call this out on every paper I grade.

    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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      19 days ago

      Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.

    Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.

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      19 days ago

      touch screens can be justified IMO, IF the company let it function as a diagnostic computer but the auto industry seem terrified of actually making something resembling a competent configurable UI. Internet could be nice if the appliance just used SNMP or similar protocols that have been around for decades, but the companies seem to love that shitty malware they call an App.