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echo: barktopus
to: Ellen K.
from: Phil Payne
date: 2005-12-18 11:58:44
subject: Re: 1 in 20 adults in USA illiterate

From: "Phil Payne" 

"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.

The rule is to think of where a question mark would go - it does change the
meaning - and put the period there.

Full stops aren't too hard in German - commas present real problems,
especially in legal German.

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