On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree in principle on the full stop, but American usage has it on the > inside, against all logic. Perhaps I should start a movement in protest. > There, I moved. Think it did any good? > > And keep your foreign spellings away from our shores, thank you very much. Well then, that explains it. I've had arguments with my girlfriend, a former reporter who did some editing, on this very issue. I say that quotation marks only go after the full stop if a sentence is being quoted, otherwise it's "word, quotation marks, then period". There, just like that. She says that the period always goes inside the quotes, no matter what. I guess it's just more of that pernicious Americanization of our language and culture. Soon we'll be going to the "theater" down near the "harbor" with our "neighbors". It's enough to make me want to grab a "lite" beer... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
