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- From: rdetweil@boi.hp.com (Richard Detweiler)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Periods in Quotes (was Re: Have some respect)
- Message-ID: <BxvBEH.439@mail.boi.hp.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:06:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.223243.21129@netcom.com> <1992Nov17.015535.9028@uts.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Nov17.130605.2568@gvl.unisys.com>
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- AND NOW....
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- For something completely different:
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- In article <1992Nov17.130605.2568@gvl.unisys.com> train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge) writes:
- >
- > [Lots of discussion about NPR deleted]
- >
- > A small grammatical flame. The characters .". I assume to be punctuation
- > marks rather than UNIX C shell metacharacters. If so, please be advised that
- > periods never appear outside of double quotation marks.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
-
- This is one rule of grammar I have never understood. I didn't understand
- it in grade school and I still don't get it. I have always gone out
- of my way to make sure I break this rule. To me it makes perfect sense
- that the punctuation belongs to the sentence not the quotation - why
- put it in there where it doesn't belong? The grammar police have a slow
- day at the office or what?
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-
- And now, "back to our regularly scheduled Quayle-bashing". }8-)
- ^^
-