Language and English

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 16:09:49 2002

To some extent, it would depend also on whether you wanted a perfect score
on this week's test. When I was learning English punctuation, I was taught
that the quotation marks come last, even though the terminal punctuation is
not part of the quoted item. Aside from that, I was also taught that two
bits of punctuation never go together, unless the last one is a quotation
mark.

Never having had any interest or training in COBOL I wouldn't guess as to
the correctness of that line of text.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Language and English


> >
> > Should this tradition continue in an age where fragility of movable type
> > is no longer a real concern, and punctuation placed inside quotation
marks
> > has the real possibility of confusing meaning?
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > At the SCM prompt, type, "SHOW BOOT."
> >
> > At the SCM prompt, type, "SHOW BOOT".
> >
> > Which one is correct?
> >
>
> That would depend if this were part of a COBOL program or not.
>
> BRYAN.
>
>
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