*>you would assume its complete in the absence of a double period* That is true ...

		fauigerzigerk on Sept 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctua... >you would assume its complete in the absence of a double period That is true for the inner sentence, but again, I'm talking about the outer sentence. It needs its own terminator to make it unambiguously clear that it is complete.