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Originally Posted by DNSB
None. Even for your quotation marks fetish, take a look at the Wikipedia Quotation marks entry for the sheer variety used in different countries. |
That table was pretty interesting!
Other than some positioning variations (first quote on the bottom, last on the top) it appears that the trend for primary quotes is a double mark (“…”, «…»,《…》) and alternate quotes is a singular of the same mark (‘…’, ‹…›,〈…〉) with the exception of a couple languages that use brackets, in either horizontal or vertical script (「…」, ﹁ ⋮ ﹂,『…』,﹃⋮﹄).
The only languages in that table that reverse that trend are English(UK), Scottish, and Welsh.... so, once again, the Britons got it backward!!
Seriously though, if we had some alien invasion that took control of the entire planet and forced us to have a single quotation system, it doesn't appear that it would be too difficult to decide on one.