"What's the point? Why do I keep seeing paragraphs in magazines like this?
"It's as if they want to remind us at the beginning of every sentence.
"Say the entire article is pulled from a book..
"Doesn't this just become redundant and way, way too repetitive?
"How come the end of the sentence is ignored?
"Because then they would have to quote/unquote every single paragraph?
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"Why not at the very beginning?
Followed by the very end?"
Yeah, it's a bit of an oddity. I can't find any suggestions about this in my book of the day, Penguin's Guide to Punctuation.
I guess with quotes longer than a paragraph we might forget that what we're reading is a quote, so they put in the opening quote to remind us. And perhaps they don't close them because the quote isn't finished. It's always been something I've noticed too.
Bullet points get redundant, too; what's the typographic symbol for "end list of specious generalizations"?
If the quotation hasn't ended, how can you quote to restart it?!
@oldnick:
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It's 11.36 of the Chicago Manual of Style, though they prefer long quotations to be set as indented block quotes. Opening quotation mark shouldn't be imposed at the beginning of each sentence, but the beginning of each paragraph. The closed quotation mark is on the final paragraph only. Thus speaks the CMoS.
They taught us the same lesson in seventh grade.
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