> Actually, I think that it is correct in english to have the period outside the quotes. My experience is more with parentheses, but I was always taught to put my punctuation outside the parentheses... Unless the entire sentence is contained within the parentheses.
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> Don "Can someone who is NOT an engineer confirm this? We're notoriously bad at English..." Monkey

Heh. From what I remember having read, it's more common in the US to put the punctuation inside the quotes, and more common in Britain to put it outside. Though I was born in the US, I prefer the British style of punctuating quotations, and have to constantly watch myself while writing papers for school...

And supposedly, the whole reason we put periods and commas inside quotes in the first place is because, back in the days of movable type, it was common for periods and commas to break off when they were placed after the quotation marks. Now that we no longer use movable type, the rule ought to be made obsolete...

-- codeman"and besides, it's just plain ILLOGICAL!"38