From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 18: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ocis.ocis.net (ocis.ocis.net [209.52.173.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B989A37B9FE for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash@bigfoot.com) Received: from phoenix (dial-74.ocis.net [209.52.173.206]) by ocis.ocis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27590 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:07:02 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" To: Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:01:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com Message-ID: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> In-reply-to: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. > > > > I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French > > habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? This may just be for Canadian French, but in my 13 years of study and use, I've never seen a space before a '?' or a '!' or any other punctuation mark. I do find it very annoying how they use '---' (em- dash) or '>>' marks instead of quotations marks in novels. As for the different `opening and closing' marks, what was the point to those?? I always found them to be very annoying and to break the flow of the type. ``just looks wrong'' > In honesty, I find myself wanting occasionally to insert such a space. > French does not include such a convention for the `.' ? ;-)) Freddie fcash@bigfoot.com ---------- I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure that you realise that what you heard is not what I meant. - Poster at my Baba's For my public PGP key, send e-mail with subject: PGP KEY REQUEST To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message