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Anonymous
Leaving the comma in the quotation is historically accepted. However, with the increasing technical usage of english in documentation has spawned a hackish application of english called logical quotation, leaving out the comma which is historically incorrect in American English. [snip (from the jargon file)] Interestingly, a similar style is now preferred practice in Great Britain, though the older style (which became established for typographical reasons having to do with the aesthetics of comma and quotes in typeset text) is still accepted there. This returns British English to the style many other languages (including Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, and German) have been using all along. [/snip]
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