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- From: byers@cl2.cl.uh.edu (Unbeliever)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Periods in Quotes (was Re: Have some respect)
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 12:27 CST
- Organization: The Land
- Lines: 59
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- Message-ID: <18NOV199212274610@cl2.cl.uh.edu>
- References: <1992Nov17.015535.9028@uts.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Nov17.130605.2568@gvl.unisys.com> <BxvBEH.439@mail.boi.hp.com> <1992Nov17.224928.18047@netcom.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?
-
- FINALLY, someone who agrees with me! Of COURSE the punctuation belongs to the
- SENTENCE, rather than to the quote.
-
- Consider the sentence pair:
-
- She said, "What's that?"
- She said, "What's that"?
-
- The first sentence is a STATEMENT about what she said.
- The second sentence is a QUESTION asking if I heard her right.
-
- In my case, I >ALWAYS< put the quote inside the quote marks, and then end my
- sentence with the punctuation of my choosing. Thus:
-
- I said, "This is how punctuation SHOULD be used.".
- I asked, "Doesn't this make sense?".
- Did you say, "I agree with you."?
-
-
- PEOPLE AGAINST BLINDLY MAIMING
- LITERAL QUOTATIONS
- WITH EXTRANEOUS PUNCTUATION
- UNITE!!!
-
-
- ObDanQuayleReference: DAN QUAYLE would fully support the maiming of innocent
- quotations. After all, maiming one of HIS quotes
- could only improve it...
-
-
- Be True...
- -=*> Unbeliever <*=-
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