History Main / TranslationPunctuation

* In ''Comicbook/NewSuperMan'', Manderin is written as English and English is written as English but in blue. When Kenan guests in someone eles's book, this is reversed.

* In their Grand Tour of Howondaland in the ''{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/1/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', two girl Assassins pick up Red Indian warrior names which are rendered in the text as ''[={{Ginger-with-Freckles}}=]'' and ''[={{Prickly Pear Girl}}=]''.[[note]] In the Latoka Sioux language, it's nearer to ''Girl with ghost-like skin disfigured with unsightly blemishes and unbecoming flame-coloured hair'' and ''Small decumbian opuntian fruit of the Brachyarthrtan Nation, seemingly inoffensive growth but heap big sting.'' [[/note]]

* In their Grand Tour of Howondaland in the ''{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/1/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', two girl Assassins pick up Red Indian warrior names which are rendered as [={{Ginger-with-Freckles}}=] and [={{Prickly Pear Girl}}=].

* Creator/TimothyZahn's ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' novels use every bracket in the English language. ''[[Literature/HandOfThrawn Vision of the Future]]'' has a passage where the various fleets of alien warships over Bothawui are given fraudulent orders to {Attack!}, [Attack!], and [=<Attack!>=]

* There was a novel about a young Mexican woman who immigrates to the US (and has a guardian angel or something that speaks to her). The English dialogue was in quotation marks, while the Spanish dialogue was in guillemets (« »), punctuation marks used for quotations in many European languages (though not Spanish, actually).

A form of PaintingTheMedium.

* In the literary world of ''Literature/ThursdayNext'', different fonts are considered different languages. They do not 'represent' different languages, the fonts ''are'' languages. The literary police force have interpreters on hand to deal with characters who speak Courier.

* The FunnyAnimals in the Curtis/Husted ''ComicBook/{{Katmandu}}'' world use no marks when speaking in their native tongue. Square brackets indicate Plains, a ''lingua franca'' common to many Indian tribes. Angle brackets denote Trade, which is usually reserved for conversing with non-Indian settlers.

Some authors address this by using punctuation other than quote marks to indicate that characters are speaking a different language that is being dubbed as English. The various type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket brackets]] are a frequent choice here (angle quotes ‹ ›, angle brackets ⟨ ⟩, or inequality marks < > are particularly common). Other options include using [[UnconventionalFormatting unusual formatting]] or AllLowercaseLetters.

* Averted for one word in an issue of ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk'' which is focusing on the villains of the story, who are all Soviet agents. The standard < > is in use except for one EstablishingShot of the capital city, which is captioned "Moscova" along with a NoteFromEd saying (paraphrased) "I know we're doing the TranslationConvention thing, but it's ''their'' capital."

* Piers Anthony's ''Literature/{{Cluster}}'' series features many alien races with different forms of speech (not only different languages, but also different modalities, such as flashing light instead of sound). Human speech is represented with ordinary quotation marks, and each type of alien speech uses a different punctuation symbol as a quotation mark. By the end of the series pretty much every symbol on the keyboard has been pressed into service.
* In the literary world of ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' different fonts are considered different languages. They do not 'represent' different languages, the fonts ''are'' languages. The literary police force have interpreters on hand to deal with characters who speak Courier.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Depending on the language. The characters' native language is Japanese, and when a character is speaking [[GratuitousEnglish in English]] or another language the dialogue will be written inside square brackets or angle brackets. This is used more in the author-endorsed fan patch by Witch Hunt than the original Japanese to avoid confusion about the dialogue.

* As seen in the page image ''Webcomic/{{Terra}}'' uses angle brackets when characters speak the Azatoth language, and no quote marks when the characters speak English.

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' is a bit inconsistent on this due to it having [[DependingOnTheArtist more than just one artist]]. For example, the main story uses [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=6545 angle brackets and a slightly different font]] when translating Halme to [[CommonTongue the language of the Drows]], whereas the side story following Vaelia's journey uses [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9089 a vaguely Japanese looking font]] when translating from Emberi.
* The WebComic ''WebComic/TwoKinds'' uses one form of brackets for Keridian and another for Bastian, although there was a phase where the artist didn't do the translation punctuation despite character(s) not knowing English (or the equivalent thereof).

* In the literary world of ''ThursdayNext'' different fonts are considered different languages. They do not 'represent' different languages, the fonts ''are'' languages. The literary police force have interpreters on hand to deal with characters who speak Courier.

* The WebComic ''WebComic/{{TwoKinds}}'' uses one form of brackets for Keridian and another for Bastian, although there was a phase where the artist didn't do the translation punctuation despite character(s) not knowing English (or the equivalent thereof).

Some authors address this by using punctuation other than quote marks to indicate that characters are speaking a different language that is being dubbed as English. The various type of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket brackets]] are a frequent choice here (angle brackets < > are particularly common). Other options include using [[UnconventionalFormatting unusual formatting]] or AllLowercaseLetters.