From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 10: 6:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B85E37B676 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.89.70]) by mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000602170624.FADY381.mta01-svc.server.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:06:24 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00843; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:06:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:06:19 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Freddie Cash Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000602180619.B232@parish> References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost>; from fcash@bigfoot.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:01:40PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:01:40PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > > 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. > Maybe they find quote marks annoying in our 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 -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message