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Ryan Catalani

Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - By Ben Y... - 0 views

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    "According to Rosemary Feal, executive director of the MLA, [the American style] was instituted in the early days of the Republic in order 'to improve the appearance of the text. A comma or period that follows a closing quotation mark appears to hang off by itself and creates a gap in the line (since the space over the mark combines with the following word space).'" Ironically, though, this article only uses the "logical punctuation" style once - in the title.
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    I love it when punctuation marks fit neatly within the quotation. The opposite makes me feel strangely queasy...
nicoleikeda18

Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half - 3 views

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    Analyses show that Trump uses his android phone to tweet, while his staff uses an iPhone to write campaigns, announcements, and other business tweets. Angrier and exaggerated words like "bad" and "weak" tended to come from Trump's android writing, and overall, the majority of negative sentiment in tweets were from Trump's android, not his staff's iPhone.
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