Re: Fwd: Smart quotes patch

Am Freitag 08 Februar 2008 schrieb Bobby Weinmann:

> Yes however, I have been using this as my guide:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark,_non-English_usage
>
> Wherein it states:
> - Sometimes, especially in books, the angle quotation marks (see
> below) are used in Germany and Austria, albeit in reversed order: »O«.
>
> This may be wrong. Can a German confirm or deny it?

No, this is true. In newspapers or so „“ is used, in books more often »« (the
primary quotation marks, the ones you would use in hand writing and which are
taught in school (at least when I was in primary school), are „“). Both are
correct. Not correct is what some people tend to use nowadays, these ugly
english quotation marks “” ;). Yet worse, they sometimes use "", this is the
worst of all. Usually you would not find «», at least I have not seen it (or
it didn’t catch my eye)

Gerrit
Received on Fri Feb 8 23:35:51 2008