Understand spoken language

Use curly quotes (’) rather than straight quotes (')

Submitted by admin on 22 June 2015

On Lingopolo we use curly quotes (’) rather than straight quotes (').

Read http://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html to understand the difference between the two types.

On Windows software, you will need to type ALT + 0146 in order to get a curly quote.

It's a bit of a pain, I know, but it's important that the words/phrases look as good as possible. Note that the curly quote rule doesn't apply to notes or typed sentences like this!

You will notice that the Literal Breakdown checker will spot where there has been a quote mismatch. In the following example, note that the "Mismatch point" is on the quote. The straight quote should be changed to a curly quote (dont' change the curly quote to a straight quote!). 

In the following example, note that there is a straight quote in both the English title (in the word "That's") and in the French translation (in the word "C'est"). Both should be changed.

curly quote problem being noticed

The following shows the quotes corrected to be curly quotes (both in the English and the French):

curly quote fixed

Note that it will take a while before all the existing straight quotes have been changed to curly quotes, but please take the time to change all those you see.