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- From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
- Subject: Re: Periods in Quotes (was Re: Have some respect)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.210754.5583@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Nov17.015535.9028@uts.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Nov17.130605.2568@gvl.unisys.com> <BxvBEH.439@mail.boi.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:07:54 GMT
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- In article <BxvBEH.439@mail.boi.hp.com> rdetweil@boi.hp.com (Richard Detweiler) writes:
- >AND NOW....
- >
- >For something completely different:
- >
- >
- >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?
-
- I believe the British put the period (and comma for that matter) on
- the outside.
-
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- In fiscal year 1991, the government agencies classified as secret a
- total of 7,107,017 documents. This marks the first time that the
- total number of reported classification decisions in a year is a
- palindrome. -- 1991 Information Security Oversight Office
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