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  1. Whoever it was that decided "smart" quotes should apply everywhere can DIAF. Yes, by all means auto cow wreck normal quotes to fancy curly things in a word processor, but doing that in a text editor or a notes app is just wrong.

  2. deloitte.com. 3600 IN TXT "\226\128\156atlassian-domain-verification=TERygaFH40lyOd2hmJGtCA2w1aJwx6y7tFKDkgG/KbegUOj0NrRxiWP9wM6y3e4H\226\128\157"

  3. @jasonsantamaria Thanks so much! I have been waiting for a resource about smart quotes such as this one, and I am glad I stumbled upon this awesome website!

    #typography #SmartQuotes

  4. @DaysOfFuturePast
    The only thing I use Microsoft #Notepad for is to remove formatting and convert #SmartQuotes into #DumbQuotes before I paste text.
    #CutAndPaste

  5. I swear, #autocorrect is trolling me. And that’s not even an apostrophe! It’s a straight quote which represents “feet” as a unit of measurement. I’m dying inside about all of this.

    #Punctuation #SmartQuotes

  6. MS Word 2010 em-dash curly-quotes trick
    Ah, Word! You and your quote smart unquote quotes! Finally got smart and added in a new AutoCorrect rule in Microsoft Office 2010: replace —“ (which is what it loved to do to me, all the time) with —” (which will save me a lot of backspacing. In case yo ...
    pixelvaniastudios.com/2018/08/
    #autocorrect #curlyquotes #em-dashes #indiepublishingtips #microsoftword #smartquotes #stupidwordtricks #Writing