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What is the smallest hill you would die on?
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the "verbatim"-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.
Example:
I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?
Example:
Edit: It's been two days, and no reply. I think they might have actually died on this hill.