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Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions
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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
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