>paragraph of dialogue ends without speech mark
>another paragraph of dialogue begins with a new speech mark
This ever bother anyone else? I get the logic but it's weird
>paragraph of dialogue ends without speech mark. >another paragraph of dialogue begins with a new speech mark
theres no logic behindf that its fricked
The logic I guess being that it's a better option than closing speech and reopening it (which makes you think it's a new speaker) or not closing or reopening speech when going to a new paragraph (which makes you think we've gone to prose)
People who write like this would be forced to code in python for a few years as corrective measure.
Haha you should try reading French. You know how in English anything which isn't dialogue doesn't go in quotes? Well in French everything pertaining to dialogue goes in the quotes including, how the dialogue is said, actions commmitted during the dialogue, and any thoughts that may have popped up in the speaker's head, or really anything the writer felt was relevant to the dialogue which isn't dialogue.
In English
>"Get me my hat!" John yelled at his daughter. She came back with his hat moments later. John grabbed the hat "About damn time."
French comparison
>«Get me my hat! John yelled at his daugter. She came back with his hat moments later. John grabbed the hat. About damn time.»
Think about how J R is written. It's like that in French for every novel.
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yuck
i just dont use them at all.
hi cormac loving your new books
I might just be a midwit but Spanish has a similarly confusing approach to these marks. I genuinely do not understand the rules at all after reading dozens of books in it and I just kind of know which parts are dialogue from context.
Stupid frogposter.
I hate it so much.
>This ever bother anyone else?
I'm not an autist, so no.
>he doesn't put a new quotation mark on each new line of the quote
I stopped reading a Thomas Carlyle book due to this.
That's proper formatting, for when dialog consists of multiple paragraphs. I hate it and refuse to do it.
Yes it's weird and annoying. The answer is to write books only about laconic characters who rarely say more than one or two words, and NEVER speak in multiple paragraphs, thus avoiding the issue.
A random thought: isn't there a 60-page monologue at the end of Atlas Shrugged, where John Galt rants on and on about stuff? How does Miss Rand punctuate it?
Mrs Rand, I guess. She had some husband she cucked, didn't she?
Take meds.