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- From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Periods in Quotes (was Re: Have some respect)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.224928.18047@netcom.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 22:49:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.015535.9028@uts.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Nov17.130605.2568@gvl.unisys.com> <BxvBEH.439@mail.boi.hp.com>
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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?
- >
- >And now, "back to our regularly scheduled Quayle-bashing". }8-)
-
- Not so fast! At last, a justification for a flame war! If you want to
- read some hilarious comments about this subject, read some of
- Stanley Kelly-Bootle's columns in Unix Review. His stories about trying
- to convince editors that a period in a piece of code must be outside
- of the quote marks are funny beyond belief.
-
- Of course, though, the real reason the period appears inside the
- quotation marks is BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO! DOESN'T ANYBODY
- BELIEVE IN VALUES ANYMORE? PERIODS BELONG IN QUOTATION MARKS AND IT'S
- ABOUT TIME WE STAND UP AND STOP THIS APOSTASY AGAINST OUR GRAMMAR!
-
- There - I needed to get that out of my system.
- --
- John Switzer | "If you ask me, Larry, the Clinton Presidency
- | has failed. What has he done? Nothing!"
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- Internet: jrs@netcom.com | (P.S. Impeach Clinton, support the coup!)
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