Mark Morris

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marty

#45
September 05, 2006, 08:20:21 PM
[quote RatushnyFan][quote French Rage]Oops, you're right.  Damn you, "Elements of Style"![/quote]Punctuation goes inside the quotes, junior.  Read the book![/quote]

OK, if this is really in the book, can you point me to the page?  Doesn't seem to make sense if Strunk and White didn't title it with the damn "!" .
"When we came off, [Bitz] said, 'Thank God you scored that goal,'" Moulson said. "He would've killed me if I didn't."

French Rage

#46
September 05, 2006, 08:24:43 PM
[quote marty][quote RatushnyFan][quote French Rage]Oops, you're right.  Damn you, "Elements of Style"![/quote]Punctuation goes inside the quotes, junior.  Read the book![/quote]

OK, if this is really in the book, can you point me to the page?  Doesn't seem to make sense if Strunk and White didn't title it with the damn "!" .[/quote]

What he said.
03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1

RatushnyFan

#47
September 05, 2006, 08:29:55 PM
::twitch:: Oops.  I got a little excited.  Strunk & White does that to me.  :-P Keep moving people, nothing to see here.

David Harding

#48
September 05, 2006, 09:11:50 PM
[quote marty][quote RatushnyFan][quote French Rage]Oops, you're right.  Damn you, "Elements of Style"![/quote]Punctuation goes inside the quotes, junior.  Read the book![/quote]

OK, if this is really in the book, can you point me to the page?  Doesn't seem to make sense if Strunk and White didn't title it with the damn "!" .[/quote]

The most relevant section that I can find is on page 36 of my copy, in Chapter III, "A few Matters of Form:"
[q]When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is enclosed within the quotation marks.


     "I can't attend," she said.

Typographical usage dictates that the comma be inside the marks, though logically it often seems not to belong there.[/q]
Another approach would be to make use of the Typographical capabilities offered here beyond those of a simple typewriter:  Damn you, Elements of Style!  ::rolleyes::

Rich S

#49
September 05, 2006, 10:35:38 PM
Just how far OT is this?  ;-)

David Harding

#50
September 05, 2006, 11:16:44 PM
[quote Rich S]Just how far OT is this?  ;-)[/quote]About a month and a half.

RatushnyFan

#51
September 06, 2006, 09:29:50 AM
Speaking of OT - hey Rich, which team do you coach at the Ice Vault?  My kid is on the Mahwah Mites (just moved to Sportorama this season, which stinks) but I'm thinking about putting him on the Bandits.
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