[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
- From: JulieReneB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 23:48:33 EDT
In a message dated 5/6/2004 2:42:13 PM Central Daylight Time, pas@xxxxxxxx
writes:
I see you punctuate the way I do, Julie. Copy editors, and in particular US
>copy editors, don't like it at all. (They insist the punctuation follows
>the quotation marks, whether that either makes sense, or is true to the
>original, or not.)
The way that I punctuate is what was taught here when I was in grade school.
I have noticed, as an adult, that, as you say, editors do not follow this
rule. I have put it down to sloppiness, rather than a different perspective or
decision. I have been puzzled by the, to me, odd punctuation usages re.
parantheses. It seems someone changed the rules and I didn't get the memo.
Julie
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