Posted on 01/12/2010 11:36:46 PM PST by Silly
HEY! You're driving me CRAZE!
I HATE those "ugly quote marks", when it’s just as easy to use “curly quotes.”
And please, when quote marks occur at the end of a sentence, remember to place the ending period inside the “curly quotes.”
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?! YOU ARE DRIVING ME CRAZE!
Lemme see your quote marks.
C'mon...let's see 'em.
How bad do you want to know?
No, it’s an ’oop. There’s a difference.
Have you been drinking?
Only Merlot. 1.5 L.
They never taught this sheet in 12th grade and you know it.
Check out my tag line.
With a messed up tagline like yours, you have no room to tell other, more sober Freepers, how to punctuate.
Razzbanyah Yatchee Benefucchi Ah Timimah Coronji.
Let’s see if this tagline tests a little better...
Nope, still screwed up.
NO!
The only time I will put quotation marks outside the period is when there is an actual quotation that is part of the sentence. When quotation marks are used to offset or highlight parenthetical information, they go inside the period.
So there!
So where? I looked and didn’t see anything!
I don’t have curly quotes. Only “these”. Note period outside the quote marks. :P
I think what he meant to say was:
See “here”!
Actually, I was also taught to put the period, question mark, or exclamation point inside the quotes. But it has always bothered me to write something like this:
Did you hear him state, “I’m Bob?”
But then, maybe it’s just me.
Believe it or not Mrs. Dobbins was a real person. She taught English in Grand Bay, AL, in the late 50’s. Seems I recall a really heated discussion one day about where to put the period in sentence ending in quotes.
Putting the period inside the close quote has always seemed odd to me. When you are quoting the close quote signals the end of the quote. The period, OTOH, signals the end of the entire sentence, of which the quote is a portion.
I was raised by wolves...and my pack never gnawed the bones of curly quotes, italics, other dang prettifying charms you make. Is it true you make your own curly quotes by bending ugly quotes with your bear hands? How am I to use the knuckles I walk on to warp quotes just to see your face light up...well I ain’t sayin’ I noze how what with the pack never staying in one cave more than one night at a time...never giving us barbarians time to develop opposable thumbs......I thought I was doin’ good just walking upright on my hind legs......
Oh hey I think I see me some grammar goodness in your first line....eyes like an eagle have I “HEY! You’re driving me CRAZE!”
See anything worth killin’ for in that line?
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