Talk:Quotation mark/Archive 10
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Page is incorrect
This page needs updating: the straight quotation mark is not a true quotation mark at all, and its use is not acceptable. Straight quote marks are a hangover from the space constraints of the typewriter keyboard and have no place in modern text. See here: https://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html -- and see literally any book on typography or typesetting. SimonDMHRA (talk) 10:16, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
- Updating where? The entire point of this article is to talk about the typographic conventions for quote marks in multiple languages. Martin Kealey (talk) 04:04, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
- The section Quotation mark#Typographic forms discusses this issue without stating an opinion because an encyclopedia (like a dictionary) records what is, not what someone thinks should be. If you can find a widely accepted authority that states what you say, another sentence to that effect can be added. But until regular keyboards come with left and right quotation marks, people will continue to use the straight forms. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)