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finite ironBOT
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timid notch
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First of all' quelque chose' is two words. As for quotes or speech: yes, French uses « » in place of "" or ''. I'm sure MS Word has a setting somewhere, assuming it doesn't automatically correct your quotation marks.

finite ironBOT
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afrancophonie

pollno << >>
pollno 《 》
pollyes " "
pollyes « »

anglophonie

pollno << >>
pollno 《 》
pollno « »
pollyes " "

real shard
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In France, their keyboard doesn't have « » (though other french regions generally do) so it's not unusual to use " "

timid notch
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I didn't expect that, interesting.

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What about single quotation marks, like those used in British English?

real shard
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Though in formal stuff « » is used yes

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Also, quotes within quotes can use "

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E.g. « Il m'a dit "oui" »

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Idk about ' I haven't really seen them used in french but their usage is a bit specific

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But yeah don't use << >>, if you don't have guillemets just use " "

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« guillemets are fun tho »

timid notch
azure egret
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I tested each and every combination on my keybaord. and found it. as you might've seen me typing her for a long time.

yes you're absoutely right, word does autocorrect it from "" to «»

for me, it was right alt key + [ / ]
windows 10 (US international keyboarkd setting)

regardless, I'm glad I asked now I know more about stuff I didn't know like the usage of "" and the lack of guillemets in French keyboards.

and yeah single quotation marks are pretty specific, my friend tole me something like 'they're really only used when you're paraphrasing'

Thanks you two. I really appreciate it!!

real shard
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For the future if you need to find a key https://kbdlayout.info/ is great

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The keyboard used in France lacks a lot of features of the french language, ironically

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Like, you can't type capital accented letters for example

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Or œ

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Even with "caps lock", as they don't actually have a caps lock, they have a shift lock, and shift + accented key is generally just a number