Thread: How annoying is the lack of quotation marks to you?
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Old 08-30-2013, 02:14 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by pidgeon92 View Post
I believe Umberto Eco did the same in 1980's The Name of the Rose. I haven't read it myself, but my husband tells me it is so. I doubt Eco was the first to employ this practice.
No he didn't! At least, not in the ebook which I have in front of me right now:

"A rich abbey," he said. "The abbot likes a great display on public occasions."

I haven't read the print version for years, but I'm sure I would have noticed any lack of quotation marks.
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