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punctuation buffage

Posted By: Faux Pas, on host 69.137.180.56
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 13:05:13
In Reply To: caution, grouching zone ahead posted by Howard on Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 12:18:38:

> Who else will look at the success of big oil and say, "Hey, we can do that!"?

This is the way the punctuation should be. You're quoting a hypothetical someone that uses an exclamation point, so logic says that the exclamation point goes inside the quotations. This quote is inside a question that you are posing, so the quotation marks close before your question mark.

Blame it on our fellow Americans for using an illogical system for quoting people. The British version works just fine.

-FP

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Re: punctuation buffage - Howard - Thu, 5/13/2004, 18:30:42
- Re: punctuation buffage - commie_bat - Fri, 5/14/2004, 04:24:46
Re: punctuation buffage - Vida - Thu, 5/13/2004, 16:27:09
- Re: punctuation buffage - Faux Pas - Thu, 5/13/2004, 18:51:06
  - Re: punctuation buffage - Howard - Thu, 5/13/2004, 19:03:28
    - Re: punctuation buffage - Vida - Fri, 5/14/2004, 12:01:04
      - Re: punctuation buffage - LaZorra - Fri, 5/14/2004, 14:23:29
        
        Re: punctuation buffage - commie_bat - Fri, 5/14/2004, 14:42:12
        
        Re: punctuation buffage - Sam - Fri, 5/14/2004, 17:38:03
        
        Re: punctuation buffage - Howard - Sat, 5/15/2004, 13:09:23
        
        Re: punctuation buffage - Mia - Fri, 5/14/2004, 21:09:05
      - Re: punctuation buffage - commie_bat - Fri, 5/14/2004, 14:23:27
- Re: punctuation buffage - Howard - Thu, 5/13/2004, 18:38:47

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