Dodi Schultz
August 7th, 2005, 09:38 AM
I can't follow your reply, Paul.
Putting something in quotation marks and attributing it so many words to a
particular individual is NOT falsely putting words in someone's mouth? You
didn't merely *suggest* that I found one style more logical than the other;
you said I said that. Not only didn't I say anything of the sort, but the
question of logic didn't even arise; nor did any questions concerning the
origins of the two styles.
Fran raised only the issue of grammatical correctness. I replied only to
that.
BTW, you said, "That is why typesetters used to do it. They didn't like the
white space to the left of the point." An exact quote from your message.
It would appear that, by the undefined "it," you refer to placing the
period, or full stop, within the quote--i.e., American style. I don't know
what you mean by "used to do it"; of course that's the way it's STILL done
in the U.S.
--DS
Putting something in quotation marks and attributing it so many words to a
particular individual is NOT falsely putting words in someone's mouth? You
didn't merely *suggest* that I found one style more logical than the other;
you said I said that. Not only didn't I say anything of the sort, but the
question of logic didn't even arise; nor did any questions concerning the
origins of the two styles.
Fran raised only the issue of grammatical correctness. I replied only to
that.
BTW, you said, "That is why typesetters used to do it. They didn't like the
white space to the left of the point." An exact quote from your message.
It would appear that, by the undefined "it," you refer to placing the
period, or full stop, within the quote--i.e., American style. I don't know
what you mean by "used to do it"; of course that's the way it's STILL done
in the U.S.
--DS