> @MSGID: 
> David said, "Today we shall all be working hard, don't slack off".

> David said, 'Today we shall all be working hard, don't slack off'.

> See how silly the second one is, using the same punctuation mark for the
> missing letter in don't as for what David spoke?

I do not think that the second one is correct for how one would normally
punctuate that sentence in English.  We would normally use the double-quote
as in the first example.  We would also put the period at the end inside of
the second double-quote mark.

Mike


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