Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:06:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@bigfoot.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000602180619.B232@parish> In-Reply-To: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost>; from fcash@bigfoot.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:01:40PM -0700 References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost>
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:01:40PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
Maybe they find quote marks annoying in our 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
> fcash@bigfoot.com
>
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