• amelia@feddit.deOP
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    11 months ago

    I think it’s a “Europe minus UK” thing, but I don’t know for sure. Pretty certain though that the French write it like that too.

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      11 months ago

      Maybe they are confusing it with ^ in your writing and don’t realize you’re just writing a regular 1.

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      11 months ago

      In France we write it both way and AFAIK there is no “recommanded” or “better” way.

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        11 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