Thread: How annoying is the lack of quotation marks to you?
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Old 08-30-2013, 02:54 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by Joykins View Post
- I've read some books that used dashes instead of punctuation - she says - I never really understood why an author would do that. Perhaps they feel ordinary punctuation is beneath them? I personally find it distracting. -
Depends I guess where you come from, as I said above I only knew dashes for dialogues until I started reading in English and saw quotation marks (distracting for me). Anyway, doesn't matter, does it.

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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
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.
My non English edition of this book surely has dashes. Maybe it also depends on publisher and what the reading world is used to in a particular corner of the Earth?
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