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Air-punctuation requires some physical dexterity.


Err....

Correction--pretty sure you had actually meant to say
'air-punctuation'......

Sam said, "Correction--pretty sure you had actually meant to say
'air-punctuation.'"

That's right. d8-)


Ed said, "Sam said", "Correction--pretty sure you had actually meant to
say
'air-punctuation.'"

Close. It should be:

Ed said, "Sam said, 'Correction--pretty sure you had actually meant to say
"air-punctuation."'"

You don't want to know the rule for this, but I'll tell you anyway. Nested
quotes alternate between single and double quotes in American usage. Using
multiple nestings, however, is considered bad writing in all but the
strangest cases of dialogue or direct quotation. I have never seen one
nested twice, as in my example above, that I can recall. But that's what the
rule says to do.

FWIW, that sentence is better punctuated:

Ed said, "Sam said, 'Correction: 'pretty sure you had actually meant to say
"air-punctuation."'"

The mark before "pretty" is an apostrophe, not a single quote. It's there to
indicate a missing word or words ("I'm").

This is what people like me get paid to do. g

--
Ed Huntress