Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:37:54 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <39378E82.9402.87CF82@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000602180619.B232@parish> References: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost>; from fcash@bigfoot.com on Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:01:40PM -0700
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> > 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. That very well may be. :-) The joys (and pains) of international differences. Freddie Software Support Co-op School District 73 fcash@sd73.bc.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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