• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    This is how you’re supposed to do it in Dutch.

    The teacher said “silence!”.

    Vs

    The teacher said “silence”!

    Mean something completely different. Although a few large literature publishers do punctuation before bracket because of translation ease, and novels almost never contain partial quotes anyway AND they include the optional comma at all times, which causes

    “Silence!,” said the teacher.

    Shudder