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Subject:Period. A different perspective From:Newton Vasconcellos <mendv -at- AX -dot- APC -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 15 May 1996 14:36:25 -0300
Hi, All:
At 16:01 13/05/96 -0800, Marvin, answering Michael, said:
(long snip)
BTW, punctuation (the period) should be inside the quotes.
______________________________________________________________
>>Marvin W. Miller
>>Supervisor, Technical Communications Group
>>Sony Systems Engineering Center - San Jose, CA
>>Ph 408-955-4251
That, of course, depends on where you are. Here in Brazil, for instance,
periods happily sit outside the embrace of quotation marks.
This is another area where translators and Twers can share perspectives (see
a different thread going on about now).
Cheers
Newton D. Vasconcellos
mendv -at- ax -dot- apc -dot- org
Rio de Janeiro
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