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Smart Quotes for Smart People

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“Smart quotes” are the ideal form of quotation marks and apostrophes, and are commonly curly or sloped. "Dumb quotes," or straight quotes, are a vestigial constraint from typewriters when using one key for two different marks helped save space on a keyboard.

Also available in French thanks to Vincent: « Guillemets et apostrophes élégants pour gens élégants ».