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Date:      06 Jun 2000 11:08:44 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Punctuation conventions
Message-ID:  <xzpzooz89cz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: naddy@mips.inka.de's message of "2 Jun 2000 20:00:20 %2B0200"
References:  <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>

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naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
> Excuse me, but what's the point of the American quotation marks?
> Why are *they* different?  And who introduced the bizarre concept
> of repeating the opening marks at every new paragraph?  Just looks
> wrong.

I don't know about the former two, but the latter is (or at least was)
widespread in French texts.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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