On Quotes and Periods

I just found out that typesetters drove the goofball method that the US uses to handle periods and commas inside or outside of quotation marks at the ends of sentences. 

When they typeset that little blip of metal we call a period at the end of the sentence, it broke off when next to a quotation mark. To prevent that, they would typeset it so that it was inside the quotation mark, which saved wear, tear, and breakage of the teeny little period which was otherwise hanging out at the end of the sentence unsupported. This later got codified in a Leading Light's early Style Book, sticking Americans with it forevermore.

The Brits went with the more logical approach, putting the period inside the quotation when the quotation itself was an entire sentence and OUTSIDE the quotation marks when it wasn't, just as any rational human on earth does and why everyone does it that way with question marks and exclamation points (which are apparently more resilient to typesetter abuse).

This rule, more logical whether the typesetters like it or not, will be used forthwith in my stuff.

I have ALWAYS hated and routinely fuck up that "period inside the quote/parenthesis" rule, and even though the parenthesis rule has fallen by the wayside, WE'VE STILL BEEN STUCK WITH THE BITCHY ILLOGICAL TYPESETTER'S VERSION OF THE QUOTE/PERIOD THING.

Well, typesetters can piss right off. Don't whine at me when you see the "error" of me putting a period outside a quote at the end of a sentence. Just pretend you're reading a Brit thing and assume that your butthurt is a classic case of "TOUGH NOOGIES".

In Our Next Episode:  Thanks a "bunch". (Or perhaps a "wad".) Later when y'all catch up with me, I can say "I always did it that way."