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Originally Posted by Luke King
There is nothing great about the book itself, but this review does annoy me. I have, obviously, run the Australian English spell-checker through it. As for punctuation...well, that is another topic altogether.
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Unfortunately, there are different rules (again!) between OZ punctuation and grammar and US English (for instance, in US English they include items like commas, full stops and semicolons within the quotation marks [a.k.a. inverted commas!] on items that aren't direct speech; in OZ and UK English we don't.
The response you got highlights the procedural part of the problem: it's difficult to do things other than "the American way" when the response if you do doesn't say "that's not how we do it", but leapfrogs past any awareness of valid differences and goes straight to "this is wrong" or "terrible" and ends up at "something we can't publish".