h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Team!

Just noticed one thing on my entry that has been subbed in-house.

In the second paragraph of "What is a Talker?"

- Owl says 'Hello'

and

> Owl tells you 'Hello there, long time no see!'

have been changed to have double (") quotes where they previously had single (') quotes. I know this is to fit in-line with the English-usage guidelines for quotes-within-quotes, but this is not the output one would see in the talker, which always displays these with single quotes.

Please could you switch the single and double quotes back to how I originally intended, despite the English-usage guidelines? I know other die-hard spods would agree with me on this one.



~ Owl

As entries should always be written with the non-specialist reader in mind, we've kept to the h2g2 English Usage Guidelines, but as there's a possibility that experienced talker users could recognise the discrepancy, I've just added a footnote to explain why we've done this. Hope this reads okay for you,

Jimster

That's just fine. Thanks, Jim!

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