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)
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