Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:43:56 -0500 From: "gh" <grasshacker@linkfast.net> To: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <000d01bfccca$e40f6ee0$2969a0d0@leviathan> References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>
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> > American English quotating marks are ``text'', the British seem to > prefer `text'. The French use << text >>, German has >>text<< or > ,,text``. French and Russian introduce direct speech with a dash. > And so on. If you look closely, you may notice such subtle > differences as opening curlies having their knob at the top or > bottom end, etc. I seem to remember noticing in Spanish the use of `<<' followed by `>>' where Americans would use (American) standard ```' and `"' (quotes). This may have been limited to the specific publication. Dan > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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