Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 06:48:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000612064821.A5749@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000606235036.A2705@mad>; from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:50:36PM -0400 References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000606235036.A2705@mad>
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On Tuesday, 6 June 2000 at 23:50:36 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: Note that you've lost the attribution here. I didn't write anything of what you quoted below. Greg >>> 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. -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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