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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. (marcusolang.substack.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/english@lemmy.ca
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

[British] I'm fairly sure I was taught to put the full stop before the closing quote, but that's perhaps only for dialogue?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It was that you could use quoted punctuation to punctuate a sentence, but you shouldn't quote anything that's not part of the quote. For example, you wouldn't say

    The first word of that popular birthday song is "happy."

    This would suggest that the first line goes "Happy. Birthday to you" whereas you could just finish after the quote: first word is "happy".

    Also, compare

    He said "hello"?
    He said "hello?"
    He said "hello?"?

    All mean different things, although that last one does look very odd.

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