From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 3 6:31: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A85737B522 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 06:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12yE0o-0007Uo-02; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 15:30:50 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.mips.inka.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA91582 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 15:01:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Date: 3 Jun 2000 15:01:24 +0200 Message-ID: <8havj4$2pdj$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> References: <006d01bfcc13$1b573c10$2969a0d0@leviathan> <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> <8h8snk$1irg$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de> <20000603111107.B30249@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > American English quotating marks are ``text'', the British seem to > > prefer `text'. > > I don't see that difference. Typically it's `` and '' for both. I just checked a few paperbacks (Iain Banks, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Donaldson, Greg Egan) typeset in the UK, and they uniformly use `...' for first level and ``...'' for second level quotation marks. The only two Australian printings I have at hand both have ``...''. > > German has >>text<< or ,,text``. > > Well, ,,text''. Sorry, but it really is ,,text``. Or, to give a better description: 66 . . . 99 Books almost universally use inverted guillemets nowadays. The type of quotation marks above is mostly limited to magazines and newspapers. As mentioned in discussions on de.etc.sprache.deutsch, some publishers apparently also use guillemets without inversion <<...>>, but that is rare, at least in Germany (might be different in Switzerland). Remarkably, c't and iX use `...'. -- 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