Thread: Punctuation rules of thumb?
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Old 05-23-2021, 08:08 AM   #64
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
@Quoth if you were going to standardize on a set of punctuation rules and use these rules world wide, which rules would you go with?
You want to make books be like an International US food franchise?

It's a crazy idea.
-> Different Cultures
-> Different Languages
-> Printed Newspapers & website versions, novels-Fiction, comic book speech bubbles. Formal writing also has different styles per application and country.

It's like saying everyone should wear the same clothes, have the same jewellery options, hairstyles, range of food, layout of houses etc. Or the same Digital TV standard.

Also English readers outside the USA have no difficulty reading USA 19th to 21st C, fiction and news reporting. US Books are largely published as-is over the last 150 years in UK. Yet many publishers obviously think the USA public is stupid and uneducated so they have to edit a USA market version. I know many USA people. All prefer the UK & Irish books to be original and can understand them.
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