Nerd-fight (2025-11-01)

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-fight

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I feel that punctuation that was not present in the quoted source should not appear between the quote marks.
- Conversely, punctuation that was part of the quoted source needs to be included in the quotes.
  The reason there’s room for argument is because there’s no simple rule that adequately covers all scenarios.
- I'd also never put punctuation inside of "sarcastic quotes". It feels wrong.
  
  sarcastic tone "I'd also never put punctuation inside of "sarcastic quotes." It feels wrong."
  Where is your god now, huh?
If it was a period I can see the argument (and I'm still not clear on what's right), but a comma? I can't see any reason why you would include a comma within the quotes. Even if the quote had a comma in the original, you're quoting the part before the comma.
- I mean, I'm pretty certain I was taught in school to do things like this:
  "It's only a block away," she said.
  And, yeah. I definitely prefer (all else being equal):
  "It's only a block away", she said.
"" > “”
- I still will change the ones on the right to the left ones if I paste something in and it has them. I think it's trauma from the days of early HTML coding and not wanting to do all the extra coding for each right and left mark.
  
  What's fun is when you come across an old blog that had code snippets, but then later updated their website to automatically convert regular quotes into fancy quotes.
Wait, is this about where to put the comma when writing a sentence or a snippet of code?
- People writing English insist the rule on the sentence makes no sense and is different from the one on code.
  If you ask me, I'd suggest we use the code rule in writing too, and make sure to copy punctuation from the original, just to make that people angry.
We have a semicolon, why not a semi-close-quote?

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