: Re: Quoting text from a country with different internationalization I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany.

I've been thinking about it, and I think if you're only doing this a couple times, I'd recommend that you just not quote the original directly. It's a total cheat, and if you can find a better answer, I'd love to hear it, but...

Instead of:

German researchers found that only "3,5 percent of the world's population knew how to quote these numbers correctly". (Schmidt 74)

I'd say:

German researchers found that 3.5 percent of people world-wide knew the correct format for translating numerical quotations. (Schmidt 74)

I know there are times when direct quotations are absolutely necessary, but hopefully this isn't one of them?

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: Re: Quoting text from a country with different internationalization I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany.

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