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Most authors use dialogue in writing, especially when writing fiction. Now, if I remember my first grade primary school correctly, dialogue can be directly separated from narration in a number of w...
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2019-12-13T11:56:51Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T11:40:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Most authors use dialogue in writing, especially when writing fiction. Now, if I remember my first grade primary school correctly, dialogue can be directly separated from narration in a number of ways. Either quotation marks, > "Murder," she said. dashes, > -Murder,- she said. or angle brackets / angle carets / Guillemets: > «Murder,» she said. I'm a personal fan of the last example and I dislike using quotation marks for dialogue, but that's just my personal opinion. What I'm wondering here is if, **from a typographic standpoint, there are reasons to prefer one over the other when reporting dialogue**. This is limited to the scope of creative writing mainly, since non-creative (e.g. technical) writing usually has stricter rules. **EDIT** : Apparently dialogue writing conventions are higly dependant on country-specific cultural conventions. To be fair, I didn't imagine that.
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2019-04-09T09:47:06Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 8