(09-21-2015, 01:34 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: IMO, not putting quotations around your dialogue is the same as not caring where you've written there, their, or they're, regardless of the context. What might be a microscopic time-saver or simple laziness on the part of a writer does a disservice to those who would read what was written. If they can't bother at least appearing to be making an effort in the technical side of their writing, can the reader simply assume out of nowhere that for some reason the writer will put a greater effort into their actual storytelling and character development? I don't think so.
Uh, wow. That's an awfully aggressive stance over an extremely minor technical choice that has zero effect on the reader, since /say is implicitly speech. I'd actually argue that for strict speech in /say, quotation marks are redundant; the channel makes it clear what's being said.
If you're using /say for other purposes, by all means, use quotation marks around speech there. I think it's exceedingly harsh to say that those who don't are lazy writers who put no effort into their RP, however.
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