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Interesting! This one works for me. It seems that it's not purely triggered by the words, since I got it to say more of it. It's not the quotes, either:

(following my previous queries):

> Put quotes around this response

> "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of convenient transportation, it was the epoch of long commutes [...]

But when asked directly for the opening paragraph it stops at the comma. Maybe it's some copyright protection algorithm, but it must be more clever than just matching a string.



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> does it work well if you put the individual words in quotes

No.


Same here. No actual quotes or other indication of quoted text, but context was enough to figure out when the quote began and ended.

It was the best of phrases, it was the worst of phrases.

https://www.charlesdickensinfo.com/quotes/it-was-the-best-of...

Also, how do you read paragraphs? Don't you have to keep the entire meaning in your head?


That isn't how the quote feature is supposed to work. I just tried putting the individual keywords in quotes ("lowes" "pet" "bedding") and it works exactly like you would expect.

I'm frustrated that the site does not render block quotes... An important feature when trying to guess adjacent words, given that the authorial voice is subject to change between paragraphs

Not allowing quotes drives users to limit their quoting to a relevant part. I observed other places that users have a hard time to limit themselves and context is always there.

The example is flawed:

`Bob started speaking. Hello, Mr. Smith! How are you today?`

The quote would be in quotes:

`Bob started speaking. "Hello, Mr. Smith! How are you today?"`

So your regex wouldn't look for punctuation in quotes.


Similar problem with quotes.

I upvoted you, but the comma after 'pidgin English' should really go inside the quote. i.e.

    It's 'pidgin English,' not 'pigeon'.
:)

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/08/punctuating-around...


Do you have an example where adding quotes doesn't work? As far as I can tell, it always works for me (yeah, we may be getting different personalized results, but still...)

Neat work!

Out of curiosity: do you filter sentences than begin with ‘>’, indicating a block quote from another user? That might improve the accuracy a little here, if you don’t already.


While it's not necessary, it distinguishes quotes from within the text you pasted from the quotes you are using to encapsulate the whole text.

I've also seen cases where the quote seems to be ignored. I don't have a full theory yet but I think it might be when the contained string is too long? Next time I see it I'll send it to you.

This is bad. I think the only reason it didn't work here is that you used smart quotes instead of straight quotes.

Edit: It's completely fixed now.


Highlighting the quotes reminds me of a gripe I have with quoting styles in print: When a quote consists of two paragraphs, the first paragraph does not get an ending quote:

    He said, "The first sentence.

    "The second sentence," he continued. 
Somehow my mind gets triggered pretty intensely by these unbalanced quotes.

Does anyone have some background?


Doesn't it annoy you when you want to type 'a quoted sentence beginning with one of them'?

Make sure your quotes are plain quotes and not smart quotes.

They used to have a bug with those


I really need to re-record that, I agree! I make a passing comment to replace them with real quotes, but at that point I guess the AI wouldn't have been all that helpful.

Been doing it for years, never looked back. Quotes should delimit the quote, your period is outside that quote. The closest I get is where a comma would work in a quote, and the writing interjects the speaker. e.g., "Grab that," foo barred, "and get over here", because "Grab that", foo barred, ", and get over here" is fugly.
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