[latentsea]

I didn't know that was the correct way to use them. It feels incorrect in a space delimited language. Interesting.

[dragonwriter]

English is not actually a space-delimited language; that's an approximation which is, in this case, throwing you off.

Punctuation is usually set closed on at least one, if not both, sides, though there are exceptions.

[latentsea]

Come to think of it, you're right. Hmm...