Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:18:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050225121550.25686D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050224182840.5740b751@mobile.pittgoth.com>
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > I think you mean ones ending in "/". Ones ending in "/." are similarly > > mishandled, but this is not noted. The strange English rule for putting > > "." in quotes is very confusing here. I don't know the exact rule. > > In my case, I was using the period to end the sentence, not to cover the > "." entry in the file system. > > With regards to English, I was always taught that you end a sentence > with punctuation in quotes; however, this rule may be broken when > confusion may occur. This seems to be one of those cases and I double > checked with my friend, Matt, who teaches college English courses. I'm told this is actually a regionalism -- in American English, punctuation is always placed inside the quotation, but in British English, the preference is outside. At least, so I'm told, but it could be rumors :-). Robert N M Watson
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