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echo: barktopus
to: Ellen K.
from: Gary Britt
date: 2005-12-18 00:14:50
subject: Re: 1 in 20 adults in USA illiterate

From: "Gary Britt" 

Only batch files and macro express macros and word macros of course.  

Nothing fancy, and the German's are correct!!

Gary

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:0cr9q1t2uk9poke9vksgn30rhsqm816u6m{at}4ax.com...
> Are you sure you were never a programmer?   
>
> BTW unless memory fails me, in German the period goes outside the quotes
> in that case.
>
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:10:40 -0500, "Gary Britt"
>  wrote in message
:
>
> >I also refuse to put quotes
> >that go around the last word of sentence (when only that last word is a
> >quote) outside the . punctuation mark.  It doesn't make sense to do that
> >just because typesetters 100 years ago found it convenient.
>

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