# "'"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25669>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 15, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25669 "2000-07-15T14:30:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/41988e/32.png) [@1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1_2_3_4_me)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//25669/1 "2000-07-15T14:30:39Z")

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testing quotes

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**Author:** ![1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/41988e/32.png) [@1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1_2_3_4_me)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//25669/2 "2000-07-15T14:31:46Z")

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don’t see any problem

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**Author:** ![1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/41988e/32.png) [@1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1_2_3_4_me)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//25669/3 "2000-07-15T14:33:51Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by manhattan \*  
> \*\*How’d you get those quotation marks to live? \*\*

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**Author:** ![1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/41988e/32.png) [@1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1_2_3_4_me)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//25669/4 "2000-07-15T14:35:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \*  
> \*\*And an alphabetical list test.  
> [list=a]  
> [li]Single Open/Close Quote Marks[/li][li]Double Open/Close Quote marks[/li][li]Double Plain Quote Marks[/li][li]Single Plain Quote Marks[/li][/list=a] \*\*

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**Author:** ![1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/41988e/32.png) [@1\_2\_3\_4\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1_2_3_4_me)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t//25669/5 "2000-07-15T14:39:42Z")

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Manhatton or Uncle Beer:

What’s this problem about exactly?

English ‘I say!’

American “So he goes, Dude!”

German «Sprechen Sie auf Deutsch, bitte.»