Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

(Anonymous) 2016-05-08 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The quotation mark goes after the punctuation.

"Okay," the shitposter said. "Keep fucking that chicken." The words she said in that sentence were "okay," "keep," "fucking," "that," and "chicken."

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

(Anonymous) 2016-05-08 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
not necessarily. standard British English puts commas outside quotation marks. js

+1

(Anonymous) 2016-05-08 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
this is how i learned it. i'm in the us, but i was taught spelling and grammar by a british teacher for a few years.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

(Anonymous) 2016-05-08 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, today I learned something new.

Most of the people I see doing this are American, though.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

(Anonymous) 2016-05-15 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm an American. I still habitually spell some words the British way and sometimes use British grammar, because as a kid, I spent most of my time on Neopets. Which until relatively recently used a British writing style. I also really liked reading British fiction.

Stands to reason that I would pick up some British word habits.

So there you go.

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

(Anonymous) 2016-05-08 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It can also depend on what's in the quotation marks: is the punctuation part of what's being quoted?

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around-quotation-marks.html

Re: ITT: Writing Pet Peeve

(Anonymous) 2016-05-09 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, that's one of the exceptions. I see a lot of people who keep putting periods outside of quotation marks, though.