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Is there a recognised difference between:

The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

and

He said, "I've been outside".

?

To me, "logical" punctuation in the first case would be as written, and in the second case would be:

He said, "I've been outside.".

indicating that both the enclosing and enclosed sentence is complete.



Punctuation is supposed to remove ambiguities, and help you read and understand more easily. In your example

He said, "I've been outside.".

the collection of punctuation marks does very little for making the sentence more understandable, and (IMHO) looks ugly. The name "logical punctuation" is just a name for the style, do not take the word "logical" too literally.


Perhaps "compositional" would be more appropriate.


No, the second one would be written:

He said, "I've been outside."


It's implicit in the closing quotes that you've reached a pause or end of some kind.


Not necessarily:

He said, "I've been outside.", but I don't believe him.


I don't see a conflict there:

He said, "I've been outside", but I don't believe him.

The period within the quotes adds nothing.


It adds that that the sentence is complete.

Consider:

He said, "The world".

vs

He said, "The world.".

vs

He said, "The world [...]".




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