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Originally Posted by ahi
Is there really supposed to be a closing guillemot? If so, why, and under what other circumstances?
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No, there should be no
guillemot, a
guillemet is needed, though.
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Also, there seems to be a fairly liberal mixing of the use of the quotation dash and guillemots...
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It's not exactly a mix, the thing is: A piece of dialogue starts with a guillemet and ends with a guillemet. Character lines inside are marked with an em-dash. The words of the narrator are not separated by anything other than normal punctuation (usually commas), but the closing guillemet comes before the final narrator's words, if any.
Like this:
« Tomorrow, you'll take the case blah blah blah.
-- We will do it, captain, replied Cyrus Smith.
-- Fine. You will blah blah blah. Blah blah blah at the bottom of the sea », said he.
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(of a more complex sort than leaving non-breaking spaces between words and sentence ending punctuation)
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It's only before "double" punctuation (; : ? !) and on the inner side of « ».