From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 11: 7:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F308337B9D3 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA25735; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:07:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAARyaq6X; Fri Jun 2 11:07:00 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA23701; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:07:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006021807.LAA23701@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions To: fcash@bigfoot.com Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:07:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> from "Freddie Cash" at Jun 01, 2000 06:01:40 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > > 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'' '<<' and '>>' are left and right guillemot. They differ from quotation marks in their usage, in that one is usually used to indicate text included from another source, and the other conversation between characters in narrative text (i.e. one quotes a source, the other the author). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message