More completely lame crap to skip over...Re: Language and English

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Jan 5 09:21:18 2002

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
>
> > Even the American English "rule" of placing all punctuation inside
> > quotation marks is a _typographical convention_ that stems from the
> > early days of movable type, when the period and comma were the most
> > fragile pieces of type and were prone to breaking off in the press.
>

I don't understand why putting the period to the left of the quotation
would be better than to the right... Please to explain...

Clint
Received on Sat Jan 05 2002 - 09:21:18 GMT