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echo: wperfect
to: BILL WHITE
from: MATTHEW MONTCHALIN
date: 1997-03-21 12:13:00
subject: Closing Quotes

-> We have had some arguments here about the
-> punctuation and ).  Grammatik is always arguing with me
-> over it.  I follow the old rule: if the punctuation
-> applies to what's in quotes, put it inside, otherwise
-> outside:
->
-> I said, "What did you say?"
-> Did you just say, "Go sit on a tack"?
 
I'll accept that.   :)   But, so long as I have your attention, where
should the commas go in the sentence below:
 
   We have therefore established that he said, "I am the man that
   can do him in," "I am the kind of man that can take him out,"
   or "I am just the kind of guy that can do a number on him."
 
The influence of BASIC programming would drive a typist to put the
commas outside the quotes.  But the proper standard to apply is the
one that predates the advent of popular computers.
--- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 
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