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Old 09-16-2009, 02:11 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
This does not strike Francophones as unaesthetic? Unbalanced guillemets, that is?
They are not unbalanced, they just enclose a multi-paragraph fragment.

The English style would be unbalanced for a multi-paragraph quote: an opening mark at the beginning of every paragraph, a closing mark only at the end of the last. But I guess Spanish is weirder here, we'd use a closing mark at the beginning of every paragraph but the first.

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The Hungarian and Russian and et cetera approach would be:
Yes, and Spanish too: em-dashes everywhere. Though there are differences in the spacing rules and where to place the signs when they come together.
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