Re: Punctuation

[Don Smith <dsmith -at- ACCESSBEYOND -dot- COM>]

     Bill -

     I appreciate your editorial corrections to my Email.

     However, though I am sure you have many reasons why the comma should
     be inside the quotes, I tell you why it never will in my writing. The
     item I am "quoting" is flamed and I am the comma is not part of that
     quote. The comma refers to the clause and for that reason follows the
     close quote.
     I suppose this is the same reasoning used in defending including the
     sentence period in a quote (or parenthesis) if it is around the last
     word. Never, never, never. Maybe this kind of thinking is why I am a
     Senior Writer and not a Publications Manager these days.

     By the way, are you available to edit all of my Email at no charge?

     Don


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Subject: Punctuation
Author:  Bill -dot- Warner -at- RELIASTAR -dot- COM at INTERNET
Date:    12/2/96 5:41 PM


     Don wrote:

     >At the risk of getting "flammed", isn't our own integrity involved
     >here? I would not consider telling other than the truth on my
     >Resume'. Color a little, perhaps, but list things not true, not a
     >chance.

     I suggest that your punctuation should be: "flammed,"
     resume.  (...Resume'. sic:  lower case "r"; no [']

     Regards,

     Bill