• @[email protected]OP
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    2210 months ago

    I think it’s a “Europe minus UK” thing, but I don’t know for sure. Pretty certain though that the French write it like that too.

    • Canadian_Cabinet
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      410 months ago

      I’ve never seen it written that way in Spain nor France, so maybe it’s a Germanic language thing?

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Maybe they are confusing it with ^ in your writing and don’t realize you’re just writing a regular 1.

    • @gaael
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      310 months ago

      In France we write it both way and AFAIK there is no “recommanded” or “better” way.

      • Canadian_Cabinet
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        310 months ago

        Funnily enough we have these in Spanish as well, but we don’t use them for dialogue. For that we use a simple line (— or –). We also refer to « » as comillas españolas or Spanish quotations