Re: GRAMMAR: quotation marks.

Sunah.Caroline.Cherwin@pobox.com
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:12:21 -0800

>Another grammatical issue:
>
>There is a funny rule in American English, that punctuation marks should be
>inserted
>inside the quotation marks, as in: [ I know words "green," " blue," and
>"red." ] Here

>I wonder what you think of this rule...

I enjoy being able to show off that I am conversant with the rules of
written American English, so for that one funny elitist reason, it's fun to
have some illogical rules about. Other than that, I think this rule is
really dumb. It's like putting sentence punctuation inside a hypertext
link. Oooh, I hate that!

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