: Re: Punctuation issue quoting dialogue I was editing a friend's story and I ran into a problem. A character wrote a letter to her friend but inside the letter there was a dialogue (quoting her

I had a similar issue on a stack exchange site, quoting something that itself contained quotes. I went with the (unusual for English) Â«French quotesÂ» for the inline message quotation, and like the effect so much that itâ€™s become a matter of style for me here.

In your example, I would think that it ought to be not an inline quote but a block quote. Then the punctuation of the letter itself can be unchanged.

I would not change the letter so that it is nicer to quote, if that would have been unnatural in writing a normal letter.

You corrected the letter-writerâ€™s punctuation (was a comma splice) but I donâ€™t think the original letter writer would break out the quote like that, unless it was long enough to be a blockquote.

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