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The internet is screwing American punctuation

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Sun Jul 09, 2017 7:17 am

I always use American punctuation in formal writing, i.e. a period or a comma before the close of quotation marks, but apparently the internet is snuffing out American punctuation and prefers the British version, and it is happening without much fanfare.

http://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/opinion/tn-blr-me-aword-20170310-story.html
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Post by garam_kuta Sun Jul 09, 2017 5:44 pm

one last chance for the "leper"of this forum to slither out of the woodwork?

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