It finally did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SamuelRSmith]

dtewi said:

SamuelRSmith said:

dtewi said:
The only time you should 3 punctuation marks in a row is an ellipsis.

An ellipsis is a singular punctuation mark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

Yes, it's three marks, but not three punctuation marks. Each mark separately doesn't indicate any change in the structure of the sentence.

Quotation marks usually have two curly-like apostrophes , but it's still a singular punctuation mark.

Anyway, this is actually a pointless debate.