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lizerdbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:19 PM Original message |
Question for grammar people |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
1. The period should be inside the quote. |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. There are different rules in other countries. |
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lizerdbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Thanks |
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lizerdbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Thanks for the help! |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. That's interesting. |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. First is the punctuation outside of quotation marks. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. That person is wrong. |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:47 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I've been doing it the foreign way all my life. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Even for words, the period goes inside... |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 01:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
33. I was an English minor and I do it both ways depending. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. What if it's a quote (or title) within a quote and using a single quotation mark? |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 05:06 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. The comments in my local newspaper appear in quotation marks |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. The Chicago Manual of Style - |
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nuxvomica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
9. I have a simple rule: for terms, outside; for quotations, inside. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 04:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. You can do it that way, but you'll be wrong |
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nuxvomica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Well I might be wrong but at least I'm not "dead wrong". |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. I agree, |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
14. British countries put punctuation outside the quotes. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. I think I've been doing it this way without even realizing it. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
15. You could be like E. E. Cummings... |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. When I worked at a newspaper a few years back, the rule was |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. There are times the period goes on the outside of the quotation mark |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. That says the American style is keep commas & periods inside the quotes. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. You didn't read all of it. |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 09:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. The OP asked specifically about "the title of a document in quotation marks . . . " |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:05 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Was I replying to the OP? |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Breathe through it. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:28 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Ya know... |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:38 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I didn't even look |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. You know very well... |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
20. If the quoted word/phrase is UNTO itself, YES, the punctuation should be OUTSIDE. n/t |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
22. Can you give the specific example? |
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lizerdbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:10 AM Response to Reply #22 |
35. It involves a client name so I'll have to improvise |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 06:24 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Logically, the British usage of putting the period outside the quotes is correct |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 09:02 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Logical or not, it's not really optional. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Of course it's optional - that's why the British (and Australians, it seems) |
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yewberry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Allow me to amend. |
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lizerdbits (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I would put the period after the parentheses |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #35 |
43. I believe the quotes around proper titles exclude the punctuation unless the title is punctuated. |
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Strong Atheist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
23. I never ask grammar people questions... |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
24. Possible outside a single quotation mark ' but not a double. nt |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-02-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. When I worked at a newspaper |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
34. This has been so vexing to me that I've come to just |
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Mariana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
45. OMG I thought I was the only one |
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Mariana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
44. My solution: |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-03-09 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
46. Fuck yeah lizerdbits! |
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