Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:50:36 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000606235036.A2705@mad> In-Reply-To: <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM %2B0930 References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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