[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
- From: "Michael Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 18:13:10 -0500
> I've been away and unable to begin to correct the various grammatical
blunders
> and solecisms in this thread until now.
Sounds like Rumsfeld's defense to me.
Rest ashured their haven't been no misstakes so far."!
Glad your back.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 6:07 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
> In all of the British fiction I've read over many, many years, the quotes
in
> dialogue come before the period. The opposite seems true in US fiction.
The
> rules for ? are self-evident.
>
> I don't know about ! though. I doubt that the British write:
>
> "Help"! he said.
>
> But I have no examples in front of me.
>
> I've been away and unable to begin to correct the various grammatical
blunders
> and solecisms in this thread until now.
>
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
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