Thread:MondlichtPanda/@comment-3452092-20190714133009/@comment-36836718-20190728081215

I have a question for English experts about something that bothers me for some time now: Pixelberry's placement of quotation marks. Is it a normal American way to do (which goes against everything that I learned about quoting in an academic field) or...? When someone says "I like cats and dogs." and they only quote part of it, why do they turn it into something like... "He said 'I like cats,'..."?? Why do they keep putting the end of quotation after a comma that wasn't part of the original quote? First thing you learn when writing scientific papers is "don't mess with the quote. Don't change it, don't add things, and if you leave part of it out, then show that you did that. If the quote is wrong, you leave it wrong and put a sign that the original is wrong. Because you.do.not.change.the.quote." so I wonder: why do people put things like "default is 'Hanna.'" instead of "default is 'Hanna'." Everytime I see things like that I imagine "Hey, my name is Hanna., what is yours?" That's not supposed to be a rant, just a clear case of confusion because I was taught the complete opposite and I had to write several scientific papers in English that were graded and where such things would have been marked as incorrect. So I am just trying to understand...