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human
CMV: Commas should be outside of quotation marks, not inside

I live in the US and I was taught to write a quote like this:

*“Your Uncle Jack is a pervert,” said the horse.*

This makes no sense. The quotation marks are being used to denote the exact words spoken by the horse. In comparison, the comma is being used as a tool in the larger sentence to add a pause/break between the quote and the remainder of the sentence. If you read the sentence literally, you would think the comma was actually part of the quote.

Clearly, it should be written like this:

*“Your Uncle Jack is a pervert”, said the horse.*

Edit: Essentially, I am arguing that the punctuation inside the quotation marks should not affect the punctuation outside of the quotation marks. Your words and the direct quote should each be discreet pieces of the larger sentence.
gpt
In the sentence you use as an example,

>“Your Uncle Jack is a pervert,” said the horse.

the comma is taking the place of the period at the end of the sentence "Your Uncle Jack is a pervert," spoken by the horse. As such, it belongs within the quotes, since the period it replaces was originally part of the quote.