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** Behold thy savior: [http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks]! |
** Behold thy savior: [http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks]! |
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** Note this is actually correct in Japanese. However, that doesn't mean you can leave it when translating a manga, since then you'll make the dialogue sound funny. |
** Note this is actually correct in Japanese. However, that doesn't mean you can leave it when translating a manga, since then you'll make the dialogue sound funny. |
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*** Technically, Japanese does not use quotation marks ("...") They use ''half-brackets'' which resemble the top half of an left square bracket to start the quote and the bottom half of a right square bracket to end. |
*** Technically, Japanese does not use quotation marks ("...") They use ''half-brackets'' which resemble the top half of an left square bracket to start the quote and the bottom half of a right square bracket to end. 「Like this」. |
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*** 「Like this」said the Japanese troper. |
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** IMPROPER USE OF INVERTED COMMAS, HOOVER! *bang* *bang* |
** IMPROPER USE OF INVERTED COMMAS, HOOVER! *bang* *bang* |
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* The Greengrocers' Apostrophe: the use of an apostrophe to basically warn people that there's an "s" on the end of the word. Apple's $0.99 per pound! Apparently [[wikipedia:Apostrophe#Superfluous apostrophes .28.22greengrocers.27 apostrophes.22.29|the other Wiki]] indicates that a major grocery chain sort of overcorrects for this. |
* The Greengrocers' Apostrophe: the use of an apostrophe to basically warn people that there's an "s" on the end of the word. Apple's $0.99 per pound! Apparently [[wikipedia:Apostrophe#Superfluous apostrophes .28.22greengrocers.27 apostrophes.22.29|the other Wiki]] indicates that a major grocery chain sort of overcorrects for this. |
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