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Probably a wrong thread but eh.
Some "common" rules that I don't like and tend to ignore:
1) Comma and period go inside the closing quote.
A silly rule invented to reduce paper tearing in times of movable type and typewriters. Makes totally no sense now.
2) Two spaces after a period.
Also a leftover from typewriter era which doesn't even work well with non-monospace fonts. Thankfully seems to be used less and less nowadays.
3) No space after ellipsis.
All punctuation gets a space, why not ellipsis?
I also tent do drop commas when doing subtitiles (even in Russian, where there are hard rules on where you put your commas) unless they're necessary for comprehension, since I think they add to the time needed to read a subtitle.
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