• @Zahille7
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    125 months ago

    We call those quotation marks.

    But yes.

    • @frazw
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      -85 months ago

      Who is we? The global pedant society?

      • @[email protected]
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        125 months ago

        The English language? I have never heard the phrase “inverted commas.”

        But as to your point: “Both? Both is good.”

          • @[email protected]
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            65 months ago

            Ah, the usual case of English and American being two entirely different languages despite pretending otherwise.

            • @9point6
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              25 months ago

              I know, I deliberately said England here to emphasize they would be a good authority on the English language

        • @frazw
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          65 months ago

          Ok so I apologise for my earlier snarky reaction but I felt zahille7’s response was somewhat condescending. Particularly since it is terminology recognised by three major English dictionaries, one of which is widely regarded as the leading authority on the English language… https://www.oed.com/dictionary/inverted-comma_n?tl=true https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/inverted-commas https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/inverted-commas

          … So just because you have never heard of something, doesn’t give you licence to be rude to someone or talk down to them as if they are stupid for their choice of phrasing. Or maybe it just means you aren’t British…

          • @[email protected]
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            35 months ago

            Nailed it on the last one. I was going to say, you can probably thank the American education system if it’s common enough to be recognized by dictionaries like those. And Zahille7 is probably American, too, which caused the snarky comment in the first place.

            Just the usual case of English being a crazy language that ruffles through other languages’ coat pockets looking for loose adverbs.