• casmael
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    7 months ago

    But then again the French put speech inside these <<>> which is just inconsiderate imo 🤧

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      7 months ago

      Funnily enough we have these in Spanish as well, but we don’t use them for dialogue. For that we use a simple line (— or –). We also refer to « » as comillas españolas or Spanish quotations