[bksvol-discuss] Re: English quotes
- From: "Ixchel, Jackie" <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 17:57:02 -0400
Roger, thank you.
Reggie, you made me laugh, I needed it. Maybe now I'll do my work.
On 5/9/12, Regina Alvarado <regina.alvarado6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It was me! I must have misunderstood the conversation about English quotes.
> I am two-thirds through the book now so I have to make it the same all the
> way through. However, I thought someone said our quotes were easier to
> read
> in braille so I have changed them on a couple of British books. However,
> it
> is a pain in the you know where, and I am very happy to know my book will
> not be sent back to me by the admin for not changing them. Believe me, it
> is very tedious. I've done it before and the books went through.
> Reggie
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chanelle Allen
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 7:58 AM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: English quotes
>
> I have never changed the quotes when proofreading books from the UK.
> Hopefully, the person to whom you spoke is misguided and confused.
>
> Chanelle
>
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> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 6:50 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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