Periods go inside "quotations."

SegaRob · Feb 22, 2003

Same goes for commas.

Sir Lucius · Feb 22, 2003

Was it was said by a friend of mine, "Hello comrade, do you have the time?"?

filsinger · Feb 22, 2003

how do you say two question marks?

SegaRob · Feb 22, 2003

Question marks can be in or out. They also can end a sentence like a period or merely end a clause like a comma. Tricky dicky.

fedex · Feb 22, 2003

maybe for you but not at my college.

"The man with a tan had a plan" (A Book 34).

Krobar · Feb 22, 2003

thanks Grammar Fairy.

orbital 123 · Feb 22, 2003

actually there are certain cases where the period doesn't go inside the quotations, but yes you are correct.

Sir Lucius · Feb 22, 2003

You know how fucked up the french are? They use commas for decimals and periods to segregate thousands.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE FRENCH!?!?

SegaRob · Feb 22, 2003

orbital 123 said:
actually there are certain cases where the period doesn't go inside the quotations, but yes you are correct.

I believe citing sources is the only valid exception.

DEX said:
maybe for you but not at my college.

"The man with a tan had a plan" (A Book 34).

that's a case of a period going in/out of a parenthesis

orbital 123 · Feb 22, 2003

SegaRob said:
I believe citing sources is the only valid exception.

that's a case of a period going in/out of a parenthesis

I have a bunch of grammer shit in my notes for my technical communications class, there are cases other than citing sources where you place the period outside of the quotes, I am just to lazy to bother finding it right now. But for 99% of the cases period inside of the quotes applies.

SegaRob · Feb 22, 2003

There's legal documents too - I think those are another exception.

Rancher Dan · Feb 22, 2003

SegaRob said:
Question marks can be in or out. They also can end a sentence like a period or merely end a clause like a comma. Tricky dicky.

Please elucidate.

Vanster · Feb 22, 2003

orbital 123 said:
I have a bunch of grammer shit in my notes for my technical communications class,

I take it that technical communications doesn't give a shit
about spelling.

orbital 123 · Feb 22, 2003

Vanster said:
I take it that technical communications doesn't give a shit
about spelling.

That sentence didn't have a single spelling error in it. Now grammar is a different story. But then I don't really care about that on a forum, especially TW.

SegaRob · Feb 22, 2003

orbital 123 said:
I have a bunch of grammer shit in my notes for my technical communications class, there are cases other than citing sources where you place the period outside of the quotes, I am just to lazy to bother finding it right now. But for 99% of the cases period inside of the quotes applies.

orbital 123 said:
That sentence didn't have a single spelling error in it. Now grammar is a different story. But then I don't really care about that on a forum, especially TW.

After so many days on TW, I guess one becomes inured to stuff like this.

SarcaStick · Feb 22, 2003

"why"?

SegaRob · Feb 22, 2003

cuz stone cold said so

Falhawk · Feb 22, 2003

"neat".

SarcaStick · Feb 22, 2003

no "doubt.".

SegaRob · Dec 20, 2003

Bump because people apparently haven't learned.

Periods go inside "quotations."

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