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by mostlysimilar 531 days ago
This has bothered me for decades, why was this ever the case to begin with?
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BalinKing 531 days ago
I'd presume it's the same motivation behind quotes in TeX (`foo' and ``bar'')—maybe typewriters didn't use to have true curly quotes, or something?

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtick#As_surrogate_of_apost... seems relevant

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