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		wtn on April 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elon Musk's space ship Dragon 'can land on Mars' I hate how the British use single quotes. It's sometimes ambiguous and relatively hard to parse.

hugh3 on April 22, 2011 | [–]

The convention is that double quotes are for actual quotes, while single quotes are for paraphrasing things that others have said.

arethuza on April 22, 2011 | [–]

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