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  • YoshoKatanaYoshoKatana
    edited March 2012
    I don't know if this is correct, but it sounds interesting:
    And just why, you may ask, do they belong there? Well, it seems to be the result of historical accident. When type was handset, a period or comma outside of quotation marks at the end of a sentence tended to get knocked out of position, so the printers tucked the little devils inside the quotation marks to keep them safe and out of trouble. But apparently only American printers were more attached to convenience than logic, since British printers continued to risk the misalignment of their periods and commas.
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  • okeefeokeefe
    Logical punctuation, also called British style, makes a lot of sense to me. I'm happy as long as a text is self-consistent.
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