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- From: trif@bike.rad.washington.edu (To Run In Fear)
- Subject: Re: Periods in Quotes (was Re: Have some respect)
- In-Reply-To: byers@cl2.cl.uh.edu's message of 18 Nov 1992 12:27 CST
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:50:54 GMT
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- In article <18NOV199212274610@cl2.cl.uh.edu> byers@cl2.cl.uh.edu (Unbeliever) writes:
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- I said, "This is how punctuation SHOULD be used.".
- I asked, "Doesn't this make sense?".
- Did you say, "I agree with you."?
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- Rumor has it (this might be an urban legend) that back when printers
- used cast lead type for printing that periods on the outside would tend
- to break off and get lost. Thus the stupid rule of all punctuation on
- the inside was born.
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