• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    9 days ago

    When translating things professionally I use the standards of the target language. Informally, though… screw it, I use my own punctuation conventions across multiple languages:

    • instead of en dash, tilde for ranges; e.g. 19:00~22:00.
    • no em dash either - I use space, hyphen, space.
    • generally I avoid single quotation marks, by default I use double.
    • nested marks become guillemets; e.g. “she said «fuck this shit» and left”
    • nested parentheses become square brackets; e.g. "I’m not buying cheese (although I love it [specially gorgonzola and emmenthaler]). Except if I’m writing about phonetics/phonology, then I simply rephrase the sentence.
    • I use the semicolon a fair bit; perhaps even more than the comma.