tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994340666745253757.post5935181432370115574..comments2023-09-06T02:15:06.456-07:00Comments on An Obtrusive Reader: SecretsSebatinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14683685409948942908noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994340666745253757.post-30935479103916649452008-01-13T02:06:00.000-08:002008-01-13T02:06:00.000-08:00@ Bill and Windvein:Thanks! I just knew that it di...@ Bill and Windvein:<BR/><BR/>Thanks! I just knew that it didn't make any sense to include question marks *inside* the quotation marks when the quote was a statement, and the sentence built around it was the question.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and Bill - shouldn't that be <BR/>[Geekery] [/Geekery]? (I was going to use the proper tags, but blogger wouldn't let me. Perhaps that was your experience as well?)Sebatinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683685409948942908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994340666745253757.post-88851228263121570122008-01-06T22:31:00.000-08:002008-01-06T22:31:00.000-08:00Brits generally put punctuation outside the quote ...Brits generally put punctuation outside the quote if the punctuation isn't part of the quote while Americans put them inside. <BR/><BR/>As long as you're consistent either way, nobody really cares.<BR/><BR/>I prefer punctuation outside the quote if it doesn't belong to the quote as in your example. And I'm American.<BR/><BR/>Sources:<BR/>http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences<BR/><BR/>http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm#footnoteS.A. Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14094259995695058081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994340666745253757.post-316793899440466042008-01-01T14:40:00.000-08:002008-01-01T14:40:00.000-08:00[Geekery begins]The punctuation would only go insi...[Geekery begins]<BR/><BR/>The punctuation would only go inside the inverted commas if either (a) it was speech (b) it's a quotation and you're writing an academic paper to MLA style (which, weirdly, puts main sentence punctuation inside the inverted commas AND (c) the punctuation in question was a comma or a full stop/period (depending on context.)<BR/><BR/>Unless they belong to the dialogue or the quotation, question marks and exclamation marks always go outside. So the way you've done it is completely right.<BR/><BR/>[Geekery ends]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994340666745253757.post-55327206127560719602007-12-30T06:06:00.000-08:002007-12-30T06:06:00.000-08:00Ha! That's excellent! You literally had me laughin...Ha! That's excellent! You literally had me laughing out loud.Sebatinskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683685409948942908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3994340666745253757.post-79378765534564351062007-12-29T20:06:00.000-08:002007-12-29T20:06:00.000-08:00You should change the name of your blog to "The Se...You should change the name of your blog to "The Secret History of Stuff I'm Reading".<BR/><BR/>Just a suggestion. :PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com