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echo: barktopus
to: Tony Williams
from: Adam
date: 2005-12-19 00:41:22
subject: Re: 1 in 20 adults in USA illiterate

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Tony Williams wrote:
> Ellen K. wrote:
>
>> Ausnahme 2 isn't about Gary's example of only the last word being a
>> quote.  The whole sentence is quoted and therefore the period is inside.
>>  Gary is talking about a sentence like
>>
>>> Tom described the weather as "warm, but breezy".
>>
>>
>> In English the period is supposed to go before the closing quote but in
>> German I think it would go where I put it above.
>
>
> I think that's just American English. I remember being taught to put the
> full stop after the closing quote unless the entire sentence was quoted.
>
Dude...finally someone else with a grasp on that point.

It's like 'es.

Adam

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