Quotation Marks Usage

The cluster revolves around debates and complaints about the proper use of quotation marks in Hacker News comments, including distinctions between curly quotes, straight quotes, backticks, and scare quotes. Commenters criticize incorrect quoting styles and discuss typography best practices.

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quotes.html e.g HN Z0 ASCII JavaScript MD FYI cam.ac www.cl quotes marks quote quoting foo bar foo scare bar style mark

Sample Comments

JoshTriplett Nov 23, 2016 View on HN

Those aren't scare quotes, they're quotation quotes.

HKH2 Jan 6, 2022 View on HN

That's not how quote marks work.

jshevek May 14, 2020 View on HN

Please don't use that quoting style for non-code.

fireattack Jul 11, 2020 View on HN

Should really use quote marks I guess.

hugofonseca Nov 29, 2013 View on HN

wrong quotes used ” as opposed to "

potatoman22 Sep 21, 2021 View on HN

Why put it in "quotes"?

ken Sep 28, 2019 View on HN

Your keyboard has quotation marks on it. Why not use them?

isolate Jan 1, 2016 View on HN

That's why it's in quotes.

dang Sep 12, 2017 View on HN

We've added quotation marks to disambiguate that.

e12e Mar 9, 2024 View on HN

And the quoting is odd as well.