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> Funny, I always punctuate depending on whether the mark is part of the
> quotation (punc inside quote marks) or not (punc outside quote marks). I
> have never been corrected on this, although my diss. adviser was more
> assiduous with copy editing than with content discussion!!
"Comma and period inside without exception" is a convention of American
typesetters. The "logical"--as though anything about language use were
logical <grin>--use of binding punctuation to the phrase more closely
than to the quotation marks is true for German, maybe UK English, French,
maybe Spanish also(?)
> Do Brits really use comma splices that often? I haven't noticed this. I
Yes, they do--as far as I've read British literature. The concept
doesn't even exist in German, where sentences are "spliced" frequently.
==Cheerio, Reinhold
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[probably anticipating post-modernism <grin>]
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