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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd call it "getting your punctuation wrong".
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In today's usage you are probably right but when I went to primary school (age 8-11) in the late 1950's it was the kind of punctuaion that my UK school taught. Any deviation from it and your marks were reduced.
We were told to use double quotation marks (single marks were never used) for book/film tiles and direct speech. If I wrote a passage today using the punctuation I was taught, it would be ludicrously over punctuated by today's standards.
I think one of the reasons why this was done is that most people then wrote things by hand and it helped make handwriting clearer. There were no word processors and typewriters were very expensive and most people did not own one.