From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 11 18:54:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798AA37B53F for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-72-41.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.72.41]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id e5C1sSG04317 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:54:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA86478 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:21:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200006120121.UAA86478@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions In-reply-to: Message from Tim Vanderhoek of "Tue, 06 Jun 2000 23:50:36 EDT." <20000606235036.A2705@mad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:21:14 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Vanderhoek writes: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > And who introduced the bizarre concept of repeating the opening > > > marks at every new paragraph? Just looks wrong. > > Disagree strongly. I find the repeated set of opening quote marks > particularly useful when reading newspaper articles that include long > quote sections. One person's quoted opinion could (all-the-more) > easily mutate into official printed word if it weren't for the > repeated marks. What really bugs me is the tendancy to open the quote but not bother with the closing quote mark on the paragraph. Then opening again at the start of the next. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message