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Re: Une Question

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 22:19
You could use italics for instance for Veni, vidi,
vici.

French quotes are normally something like << quoted
thing >>, but smaller.

--- "Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
<latinfrench@...> wrote:
> This question came up today in French class, to > which I had to reply, > "I have no idea." I then posed it to the native > speaker here in > school, to which she replied, "Aucune idée." So > maybe someone here > knows. > > How do you handle a quote within a quote in French? > In other words, > *punctuation-wise*, what do you do with a sentence > like: > > When our teacher told us, "Caesar said, 'Veni, vidi, > vici,'" I was > utterly flabbergasted. > > ? > > Kou
===== Philippe Caquant "Le langage est source de malentendus." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com