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- From: gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees)
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- Subject: Re: Dangling pointer?
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- Date: 19 Apr 1996 20:31:19 +0100
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- Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote:
- > I use hacker quotation [i.e., punctuation belonging to the
- > quoted sentence goes inside the quotes] consciously; standard English
- > quotation rules are broken.
-
- There are no "standard English quotation rules", or rather there are
- several. The "sentence punctuation goes inside the quotes" rule that
- you may have been taught in school, is used for dialogue in fiction.
-
- What you describe as "hacker quotation" I have seen called "scientific
- quotation", and is appropriate in scientific and technical contexts
- where knowing exactly which material is quoted (including sentence
- endings and other punctuation) is important.
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- Gareth Rees
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