From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 11 13:43:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5121637B9B8 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp8490.on.bellglobal.com [207.236.124.154]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25114; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA02782; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:50:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:50:36 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Greg Lehey Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000606235036.A2705@mad> References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. Not that the phrase "official printed word" means much, anyways... :-) > > More to the point, if you expand your horizon a bit, you'll learn > > that every language (or even major national variation) has its own > > typographic conventions. Asking about their point and declaring the > > ones you happen to be used to as the right way is profoundly silly. Sometimes there are advantages and disadvantages to certain conventions. For example, I suspect an objective study would find that langauges that marks sentences with periods and capital letters are faster to read and suffer from fewer miscommunications. -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message