On 9/10/2015 8:08 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2015-10-09, Liviu Andronic wrote:
...
Besides checking everything that may go wrong, remember that the
second most important part of the job is to say "no"! And that's not
the easiest part.
Out of curiosity, what French typography dictates for a punctuation sign
after a double quote? Shouldn't it be inside the quotes? 8-)
Isn't this an English peculiarity? I can't remember seeing
end-of-phrase punctuation marks within quotes in any other language...
At least in German, the rule is: put the punctuation where it belongs --
either the quote or the enclosing sentence.
* The Duden says: "A complete sencentce is enclosed including the
punctuation."
* Partial sentences or single words are quoted without punctuation.
In the above example, it depends on the exact meaning:
* to say "No!" -- shout/speak/write the imperative "No!".
* to say "no"! -- reject something (but maybe in this case the quotes
should be better left out alltogether).
Günter
This is English practice too; see e.g. "The New Fowler's Modern English
Usage" under "quotation marks", item 2.
Andrew
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