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>From: Sara Garnes <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: punctuation
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>Nancy, et al.,
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>If the punctuation traditions arose from printers' needs, why do
>disciplines differ in their use of punctuation?  I haven't checked
>recently, but the Modern Language Association and the Linguistic Society of
>America used to follow different conventions regarding placement of
>quotation marks, commas, semi-colons and terminal marks.  One difference
>which, in spite of MLA sanctions I still am tempted to use, is the
>placement of punctuation marks outside of quotation marks when the
>quotation mark is around a word being used as a linguistic example and is
>not part of the syntax of the sentence, as such.  LSA observes a
>difference, MLA lumps all into one category:
>As they searched for the first use of the word "squint," . . . (MLA) vs.
>As they searched for the first use of the word "squint", . . . (LSA).
>If this is not still the case, I'd like to know about it.  And wouldn't it
>conflict with an explanation based on printers' needs?
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>At 05:38 PM 9/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Sender:       Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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>>Poster:       Nancy Burkhalter <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject:      confirming some informtation I read here
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>>I can't remember who wrote this or when I read it, but could someone out
>there
>>please confirm its truthfulness or give me a citation for it?  Thanks.
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>>The American custom of putting the period and comma inside the
>>quotation marks sprang from the printer's need to enclose these
>>marks within another type element so as not to lose them.
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>>Also, Martha Kolln, could you please send me your e-mail address?  And
>welcome
>>back!
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>>Nancy Burkhalter
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>Sara Garnes
>Associate Professor of English
>Ohio State University
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Sara Garnes
Associate Professor of English
Ohio State University
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