[bksvol-discuss] Re: quotation marks
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:48:15 -0800
My pleasure smile
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cindy, this was really interesting! Thanks!!
>
> Judy s.
>
>> to add to what Ann said ( or explain further); "smart" quotes are
>> curly ones; (stop reading here if this is all you want to know,
>> smile)
>> I've pasted directly below a definition and example from Wikipedia,
>> but I also, not being able to resist because I found it interesting,
>> and have never known when to stop explanations, (drove my daughter
>> crazy but her friends appreciated it, as one told me years later)
>> pasted a more detailed explanation of of quotation marks (I didn't
>> know the curly ones were called English curved quotes).
>> a definition and example form Wkipedia: ‘—’ : English curved quotes,
>> also called “book quotes” or “curly quotes”, resemble small figures
>> six and nine raised above the baseline (like 6...9 and 66...99), . In
>> many typefaces, the shapes are the same as those of an inverted
>> (upside down) and normal comma.
>> Typewriter quotation marks
>>
>> "Ambidextrous" quotation marks were introduced on typewriters to
>> reduce the number of keys on the keyboard, and were inherited by
>> computer keyboards and character sets. Some computer systems designed
>> in the past had character sets with proper opening and closing quotes.
>> However, the ASCII character set, which has been used on a wide
>> variety of computers since the 1960s, only contained straight single
>> quote (U+0027 ' apostrophe) and double quote (U+0022 " quotation
>> mark).
>>
>>
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