Comments on: Foreign quotes…

By: Karla

Karla — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:40:57 +0000

Awesome post!
Japanese uses 「・・・」 for level one and 『・・・』 for level two.

By: Maxim

Maxim — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:29:51 +0000

Thanks for an interesting post!
Russian uses « … » for level 1, and „ … “ for level 2.

By: Adrian Morgan

Adrian Morgan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:17:12 +0000

When I rule the world, we’ll all use └ … ┐ for quoting. A clean break with tradition.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:53:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

Thanks very much for your comments.

I apologise for getting some of them wrong: I will amend accordingly now!

By: try some Ove Kvavik

try some Ove Kvavik — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:17:04 +0000

Norwegian uses guillemets for Level 1 quotes: « … »
and upper single quotes for Level 2: ‘ … ’

(although the stupidity of MS Word has made its influence on people)

By: Daniel B

Daniel B — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:32:58 +0000

sorry, §58, not 64.

By: Daniel B

Daniel B — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:18 +0000

Actually there are no rules for the form of Danish quotation marks. Most people will use “…”, but all other possibilities are accepted. The only rule being that they show a clear distinction between the text inside the marks, and the rest of the text.
(Dansk Retskrivningsordbog §64)

By: Pepijn

Pepijn — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:15:49 +0000

An interesting list! Unfortunately, it does not do justice to the matter at hand. For example, traditional Dutch style is „…”, not “…”, which is of more recent date. Typically German »…« also remains unmentioned. And the layout of the list ignores the difference between the traditionally French usage of « … » (with spaces around the quotation marks, or guillemets) on the one hand, and Dutch “…”/„…” or German »…« (without such spaces) on the other.