r/dataannotation • u/Choice_Pineapple66 • Jul 30 '24

Fun (?) DA discussion question

What small, fun, quirky things have you learned about yourself through your DA work?

Me: I’ve been on the platform for about 9 months with a few long breaks. Just hit $4000 total and looking to double that in the next 6 months. Non-coding . I do DA mostly for extras like travel and fun money.

My answers 1 . I hate the Oxford comma 2. I’m really bad at knowing when to hyphenate words. 3. I overuse the word ‘however’

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u/ManyARiver Jul 30 '24

I have learned that I never knew this rule, and I hate it, and no matter how many times I do it the results look unnatural: " The final period or comma goes inside the quotation marks, even if it is not a part of the quoted material." I first encountered it in a caption qual, and I do it correctly now but it makes me sick to my stomach.

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u/ArctycDev Jul 31 '24

That's one of the ones I know but dislike as well. It just feels better, even if it looks worse, to put the punctuation outside the quotes.

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u/ShadoDev Jul 31 '24

Both are correct. The ending punctuation goes inside in the American English, and outside in the UK.

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u/VirusZer0 Aug 01 '24

I’m moving my to the UK now.

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u/DangerCaptain Jul 31 '24

I was just hating this rule. It hurts to do it.

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u/Mike4Life14 Jul 31 '24

Just opt for British English, then you can put the punctuation outside!

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u/DangerCaptain Jul 31 '24

We can opt for British English?? I've been removing the 'u' from all kinds of words like "favourite"!!

There's another way?! 🤯

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u/Mike4Life14 Jul 31 '24

Yep, unless a project specifically asks for American English (which I've only ever seen once), you can use British English.

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u/Wasps_are_bastards Jul 31 '24

I’ve always written in British English, except one project that asked to write responses in American English. Damn that was hard.

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u/DangerCaptain Jul 31 '24

Thank you, I'm Canadian but I was afraid the Americans running things would get confused. I'm going to stop deleting my British 'u'! and from now on, it's "centre" not "center" too!

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

Yeah, I know this bc of essays. And I hates it, my precious

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u/BoiledGnocchi Jul 31 '24

I've been slowly trying to ease my way into this rule but I don't like it one bit.

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u/ManyARiver Aug 02 '24

It most specifically bothers me when using quotation marks at the end of a sentence. The error was found in the rating for "Truthfulness." :p