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>>9275829
Slow board, shameless self bump.

It doesn't have a name.

It's a stylistic choice of indicating dialogue. 'Quotation marks' are simply a convention, an English convention, they're not a rule.

The problem with using them comes about when you use a dash to indicate interrupted speech, a convention that is paired with quatation mark use.

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>>9275909
That's a shame.. I was hoping to read into it, maybe try my hand towards that style. It's real natural and doesn't run the risk of becoming a "and then our main hero said" type of novel.

>>9275931
Just use it then. It allows you to have characters that can quote other characters, something that's normal in speech

- i don't care if he said i 'cook like shit', he's wrong.
- ok then.

>>9276000
Ooo I wake up and trips tell me to go for it.
When a character is quoting another character in standard writing, wouldn't it just go as follows (punctuation wise): "the way he said 'I could kill you' was honest". Single marks opposed to the standard double?

It's called dash dialogue. Y'all are plebs. Fuk fuk fuk.

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>>9276729
Thank you.

>>9275829
it's called a quotation dash and it's the norm in spanish dialgoue at least. i've also seen PKD and david eggers do it