European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.
Interestingly, the author does not follow this convention on his personal site (first link in profile) … instead option for the ‘single quote’ form instead.
To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office:
European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.
Germany != Europe.
The French use « », Italians use ‘regular’ “quotes”, etc.
Strangely enough, this is the first time I see your style of quote, in two decades on the Internet.
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
Yeah I’m surprised at how rare this is to see. I guess that means all Germans don’t follow this convention?
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> European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high
Wouldn't say it's "common", because IIRC that's only the case in Germany and Austria.
however in German you would use two tick quotation marks like „this".
Also in Polish, actually.
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Interestingly, the author does not follow this convention on his personal site (first link in profile) … instead option for the ‘single quote’ form instead.
To give a definite answer to the discussion below - it seems Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Croatian sometimes use this format. Here an authoritative source: the EU publications office:
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
It‘s what my phone made out of two presses of the same (single quote) button.
It's ‚comma-apostrophe‘, actually.
,comma-apostrophe'? Only place I've see the backtick used for apostrophe is latex. And even then half the people don't know about it.
Sure, but there's no backtick in the GP's comment. Only an apostrophe.
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