From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 10:42:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (enterprise.sd73.bc.ca [207.23.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3142F37BAC2 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash@bigfoot.com) Received: from fcash ([207.23.161.210]) by enterprise.sd73.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08249; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:46:01 -0700 From: "Freddie Cash" To: Mark Ovens , chat@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:37:54 -0700 Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Reply-To: fcash@bigfoot.com 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 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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