Hey fedizens :FediverseSymbol:

Anybody know a trusted script¹ or extention² to automatically replace "smart" (aka "curly") quotation marks and apostrophes with straight ones?

• Double quotation marks -- replacing “ and ” with ".
• Single quotation marks -- replacing ‘ and ’ with '.
• Apostrophe - replacing ’ with '.

Genuinely asking, but no reply guys please 🫶

Thanks 🩷

#AskFedi #punctuation #PunctuationMarks #QuotationMarks #apostrophe #GenuinelyAsking #NoReplyGuys

Edit: Apologies for any confusion caused. We're looking only for something basic and trusted that can replace certain characters or text strings with another. So long as we can easily configure it to replace the above, it doesn't matter if it's a more-general script or extension for replacing text.

Edit 2: We found an extention that could automagically do it for us. It's called FoxReplace. Took us a few moments to work out how it worked, but we ended up creating a rule for text only (ignoring URLs) to apply the desired substitutions automatically to the text output on any rendered web page on a page load/reload.

¹ Compatible with violentmonkey.
² Compatible with Firefox or Firefox-based browsers.

@GalacticGoddess

Even Weird Al knows quotation marks are not for emphasis ... 🤦

😜

#QuotationMarks #emphasis #WeirdAl #punctuation #WordCrimes

Seriously #BBC ?
So '30 Palestinan schoolchildren killed ' needs quotation marks. But 9 killed Israelis don't? Are those Palestinans less real, or less trustworthy than the Israeli? #quotationmarks

思ったよりオーセンティックな雰囲気ですがチャージフリーはありがたいっすね。
#西荻窪 #quotationmarks #recordbar
https://www.instagram.com/p/C76p9bvSo6V/

Question: Has the use of quotation marks for dialogue in fiction fallen out of favour, or has this always been a thing and haven't I picked up on it before?

I'm now reading the third book in a row (currently 'The Prophet Song' by Paul Lynch, before that 'The Promise' by Damon Galgut and 'No Country For Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy) and all three don't have dialogue marks.

Is this a stylistic choice on the author's part? Is this to make the pages seem calmer? Is this to save ink on pages? And is this really a new thing or haven't I just woken up to it before?

#bookstodon #quotationmarks @bookstodon #reading

Question: when I’m writing, if someone uses a foreign word, I usually put the word in italics.

I told him to say <i>adieu</i> when he left.

If the entire sentence is in italics, I also include the #quotationmarks, if any.

<i>"Bonjour, mon ami."</i>

But what if only the beginning is italicized? Does the leading q-mark or other adjacent #punctutation get italicized?

<i>"Allo</i>, how are you?"

<i>"Allo,</i> how are you?"

"<i>Allo,</i> how are you?"

"<i>Allo</i>, how are you?"

I don't care what the elites say, I think that items in quotation marks that aren't indicating speech by another person should have the punctuation outside the quotes.

Take this for "example".

This is a petty hill I will die on. Suck it, linguistic cabal.

#language #punctuation #elites #cabal #quote #quotationmarks #grammar

Whomever reads this, I need help, PLEASE. #KEYBOARD #Help.

I try to type an #apostrophe, I get è. I Try to type #quotationmarks, I get È.

I try to type a #ForwardSlash, I ALSO get é instead, and when I try to type #questionmark, I get É, AGAIN.

I just want my keyboard to work normally, but it won't and I don't know why it won't, or how to fix it.

#technicalproblem
#troubleshooting
#Keyboardproblems

The 12 (plus 19) Days of Punctuation: Free tips from "The Best Punctuation Book, Period"

Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes, not to call out words being discussed.

#12DaysOfPunctuation #GiftsForWriters #NaNoWriMo #AmEditing #Punctuation #QuotationMarks https://www.amazon.com/Best-Punctuation-Book-Period-Businessperson/dp/1607744937/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OUGDFHF7ONAE&keywords=the+best+punctuation+book+period&qid=1669395264&sprefix=best+punctuat%2Caps%2C367&sr=8-1

oh my god.

'#Commas and #Periods with #QuotationMarks': A History Lesson and Explanation of the Conflict between Countries [subhead my addition]
https://cmosshoptalk.com/2020/10/20/commas-and-periods-with-quotation-marks/

#AmEditing #EditingCommunity #CMoS #ChicagoManualOfStyle

I got a new laptop when the "old" one pretended to break. The "new" keyboard will type "quotation marks" without me having to press a space key for them to show up and now I "can't" ("won't) stop myself from using them. #computers #quirks #keyboard #QuotationMarks

appropriate quotes...

#securityguard #asleep #sleeping #quotationmarks #appropriate #sign