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I remember the those angled brackets being the way they spoke telepathically, right? What is the significance with those quotes ending in commas?
I'm guessing the brackets are just supposed to be a direct replacement for double quote symbols.
So the proper grammar of:
"This is an example," she said.
Is the same as:
<This is an example,> she said.
I'm surprised nobody uses single guillemets as a primary quotation mark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
French does, doesn't it?
Also in German literature, but only printed books not newspapers.
Not as a primary, they use it for when a quotation is nested inside another quotation
Edit: although maybe they use it in practice instead of following the theoretical grammar, like a lot of people using computer quotation marks (U+0022
") although those are not supposed to be used outside very few languages