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Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)
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Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As long as we're nitpicking, in English, we only use the upper quotation marks, e.g. "you're".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s good to know, thank you! I‘ll try to keep it in mind from now on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, you actually didn't know? No judgement, I'm just surprised.

The other thing you might want to know is that if you want to get fancy and use different opening and closing quotation marks, they curve the opposite way to what you're used to, “like this.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I did at some point, but I keep mixing it up with my native language rule for quotations. I study both german and english language and should actually know better, lol. The rules of written language are fascinating to me, so I appreciate any corrections!