Re: Punctuation Inside Quotes

[Sally Marquigny <SALLYM -at- MSMAILHQ -dot- NETIMAGE -dot- COM>]

A public apology to the list for posting while my brain was in overload.  I
too agree that my example (the first listed below) was poor & downright
incorrect.  I thought I could come up with an example to match what I was
fairly certain I had seen elsewhere, but I stand corrected.  I should have
checked a style manual and lurked a while longer.

Yes, Matt Hicks, I do write for a living.  I don't claim to be perfect, but
I do continue to learn as I go.  I, like many other writers, was not
formally trained in this particular area, but fell into it due to a mixture
of interest, skill (believe it or not), and timing.  I hardly think that 2
punctuation marks determine a writer's credentials.  But look on the bright
side:  The more lousy writers there are out there, the more jobs available
for you to come in & fix it all after we're done ;^)

Sally Marquigny                    Network Imaging Systems
sallym -at- msmailhq -dot- netimage -dot- com       Herndon, VA

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
 --Socrates
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Punctuation Inside Quotes
Date: Monday, October 31, 1994 9:35AM

>The painting (I really didn't like it myself.) sold for $600.

> The painting -I really didn't like it myself,- sold for $600.

Ugh. (Sound of me pounding my forehead on my desk.) These sentences are
coming from people who write for a living?! Apparently the scarcity of
people who can write is worse than I had realized. :-(

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