Ron Hunter wrote: > Jay Garcia wrote: > >>On 17/08/02 01:19, Brian Heinrich Replied As Follows: >> >>--- Original Message --- >> >> >>>Fair 'nuff, I guess. However, since he bases his argument on typewriters >>>/v/ computer typography (apparently), and since the convention antedates the >>>common use of the typewriter and fixed-pitch fonts, I would still say that, >>>of necessity, he is wrong. But it's not that big a deal. . . . >>> >>>/b. >>> >> >>Type up an English term paper and double space after a period ending a >>sentence ... YOU FAIL !!! Don't argue with my daughter the English major >>!! :-) >> >>So long as it's "readable" I could care less. >> >>-- >>Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion >>Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI >>UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org >>** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email ** > > > Yeah, Jay, but they teach people to spell 'tomatoe' as 'tomato'. Leaving off > that 'e' saves ink in newspapers and publishing, but it changes the way the > word would be pronounced, and is 'wrong'. I too was an English major, and > practices often change, albeit slowly, as some of us just aren't going to go > along with such uncivilized practices as putting ending punctuation inside a > quotation mark at the end of a quotation that ends a sentence. What goes in > the quotation marks is THE QUOTATION, NOT the punctuation for the sentence > containing it. Anyone can see what confusion the current practice might > cause. >
Last I checked, my dictionary says 'tomato', not 'tomatoe'. The e is appropriate only in the plural version 'tomatoes'. That was one of the things that got former VP of the US (Quayle) ridiculed... telling students they forgot the letter e on tomato and potato, when in fact there isn't one (anymore?) -- Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
