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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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