Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:01:40 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> In-Reply-To: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan>
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> > > I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails.
> >
> > I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French
> > habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'?
This may just be for Canadian French, but in my 13 years of study and
use, I've never seen a space before a '?' or a '!' or any other
punctuation mark. I do find it very annoying how they use '---' (em-
dash) or '>>' marks instead of quotations marks in novels.
As for the different `opening and closing' marks, what was the point to
those?? I always found them to be very annoying and to break the flow of
the type. ``just looks wrong''
> In honesty, I find myself wanting occasionally to insert such a space.
> French does not include such a convention for the `.' ? ;-))
Freddie
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