That would be German. Though it would be interesting to learn whether other languages use it too.
Czech uses the same style, as in the following relevant excerpt from Czech Wikipedia:
quote:
Dal vdeck komunity s tmto tvrzenm souhlas, jin nazvaj ID junk science
Also worthwhile to note is that the closing quote marks point backwards.
This is due to historical German influence, but the English style of quotemarks are starting to appear in news sources (including Czech Television's website) due to the dominance of English language media. The old German way is still the "official" version approved by the Czech Language Institute though.
(off-topic, maybe, but more enlightening than most of what was written in this thread).
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