Re: Quoting styles (was Re: Antipassive?)
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 22:58 |
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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Ph. D. <phil@...> wrote:
> As with many things, it really comes down to what one is used to. I find it
> looks much better to have them on the inside, even if it's not logical, and
> that's the way I set them when I print
> a small book. Those outside of North America
> will probably think they look best outside because that's what they're used
I tend to use "logical quotes" (punctuation outside the quotation
marks unless it's really part of the quotation) for technical writing,
and traditional (American) quotes for essays and fiction.
ObConlang: gzb uses unambiguously nesting { } curly brackets
as quotation marks, and treats punctuation around quotes in
the Commonwealth/"logical" style.
> to. (This reminds me of the
> thread about currency sizes. Those who live in countries where each
> denomination is a different size think it quite odd that North American
> currency
> has the same size for all, and those in North America
> find it quite odd to different different sizes.)
A friend, who collects currency, explained to me that the purpose
for varisized currency is so that blind people can tell denominations
apart by touch.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm
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