Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:33:49 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use/Utilize Message-ID: <20020406063348.GA1426@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3CAE3D60.47437503@mindspring.com> References: <20020405183857.GA58446@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> <20020405231950.B63981@lpt.ens.fr> <xzpofgxsunx.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020405214311.GA798@lpt.ens.fr> <3CAE3D60.47437503@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Apr 5, 2002 at 16:12:16: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Sorry, my bad. (Where's my dictionary when I need it?) > > At least you still put two spaces after your priods, like > God intentded. Except that I prefer to call them "full stops", like God intended. And I try to spel wrods corretcly, too. > This, despite your other bad English habits. Like what? > I haven't really noticed if you put the punctuation inside > the ending quotation mark, or outside, Endless debate on which is "correct" here; email (or monospaced text) tends to be more readable with punctuation outside quotes. > capitalization inside the second quoted section in a split > phrase, or not. I usually don't change quotes. :) R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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