@izaya
You mean like:
Did Dillon say, "I walked to the store?"
vs
Did Dillon say, "I walked to the store"?
Honestly, I do the second since leaving school, but I think the first is what my high school English teacher wants me to do.
it looks better but my brain says it's wrong because it's changing the contents of the quote
@wolf480pl @izaya @2ck I have to say, that structure is very unusual, but to me it still looks perfectly coherent.
@PunaisetPimpulat @izaya @2ck IMO that's the right way but I wouldn't be surprised if some humanists insisted it's wrong.
@wolf480pl @izaya @2ck Having studies a little bit of calligraphy and the history of writing, I’m pretty sure some of these odd conventions came from necessity. Nowadays, in the age of infinite screen space, there’s no need to combine separate letters into ligatures or collapse multiple closing symbols into one. In the age of expensive vellum things were very different. However, that still doesn’t explain silent letters though. That’s just wasted space IMO.
