Emma Cox on Nostr: npub1ywq0c…urmf9 I recall chunks of the handmaiden’s tale had no inverted commas. ...

npub1ywq0cjmsknsegvq4udww0p7ryfsg0ueqr92a69u45htlq5vll7vqlurmf9 (npub1ywq…rmf9) I recall chunks of the handmaiden’s tale had no inverted commas. But technically these were past events being recalled by the MC so it wasn’t technically direct speech, but it still took awhile to get used to.

My sole bugbear with punctuation is when it can have multiple uses. Italics is a good example. One book I read used it for ship names, foreign words, thoughts, and as a word emphasiser (the latter was especially overused). It made for messy reading.