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Meme aside, I'm commenting to show appreciation for the correct use of quotation marks. Grammar nazi stamp of approval.
“If you see something suspicious “speak up” is correct usage?
https://www.grammar-monster.com/punctuation/quotation_marks_multiple_or_new_paragraphs.html
I think they mean this.
This hurts my programmer soul, I'll start escaping quotation marks instead
Being a programmer finally won out over my writing background. For example, I know the rule in the US is to include punctuation inside the quotation marks, but I just can't do it anymore if the punctuation mark is not actually part of the quote. "The British do it right, in my opinion".
So you're telling me "The British do it right,".
As a native English speaker I feel like I get a say in this. This is the worst rule I've seen proposed. Unbalanced quotation marks are confusing as hell.
Yeah what the hell. It's like having unmatched parentheses when coding.
While we're at it, putting punctuation inside quotation marks when it's not actually part of the quote also needs to be fixed. And the whole he/she thing.
YES! I've seen this formatting a lot in published books but never on the internet.
WTF, I thought it was wrong. This is weird.
"Correct use of "quotation marks"
I don't think OP's meme used quotation marks correctly... 👀
Normally if a quote spans multiple paragraphs, you don't close the quote at the end of the paragraph, but you do start the next paragraph with quote marks.
This is just one sentence with three sets of double quotes.
I can't imagine it being grammatically sound to have a sentence span multiple paragraphs though.