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Re: punctuation buffage

Posted By: Faux Pas, on host 68.32.218.102
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 18:51:06
In Reply To: Re: punctuation buffage posted by Vida on Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 16:27:09:

> >Blame it on our fellow Americans for using an >illogical system for quoting people. The British >version works just fine.
>
> What's the British version? It's different? Maybe everybody else in the world knows that, but I'm curious.
>
> Vida

Well, it appears I was a bit off. The British-American divide about quotation marks comes from placement of the comma and period.

Vida said, "This is the British version." Note that because I am quoting a sentence, I include the punctuation used in the quoted sentence.

Vida said, "This is the American version". Note here that I do not, even though I am quoting a complete sentence.

-FP

Link: alt.usage.english faq on quotes and punctuation.

Replies To This Message

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

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