[bksvol-discuss] Re: English quotes
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 08:58:05 -0400
Whew, what a relief!
I think the person got confused by some long discussion on this list,
which I must have missed, though I vaguely recall something I didn't have
the time to follow.
Tracy
> Hi Tracy,
>
> Oh, you are so right. Absolutely, no! We do not want proofreaders to
> change
> British quotation markings to American quotation markings. Please just
> leave them as they are printed! I have no idea where anyone would get the
> idea that Bookshare thinks we should change them.
>
> No worries. Just leave them as they are printed.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 4:50 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] English quotes
>
> For books published in the UK, the quotation mark system is different from
> that used in the US.
> Someone said to me yesterday that they thought that we are supposed to
> change all those English quotes to the American system. I sure hope the
> person I was talking to is just confused.
> I so totally disagree with that idea. I see my job as a proofreader or
> submitter as keeping the book as close as possible to the original. I
> will
> move a few words around, if a footnote or sidebar interrupts a sentence,
> but
> otherwise, it should stay as is. I even leave in misspelled words, if I
> can
> determine they're misspelled in the original, though it bugs me to do it.
> Changing all the quotes from one system to another is a change from the
> way
> the book was published, which adds nothing to its comprehensibility, and
> is
> a massive waste of a volunteer's valuable time. If someone has decided
> that's how it should be done, then that decision should be revisited.
> As you can tell, I feel pretty passionate about this.
> Tracy
>
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