2012/5/27 Doug Hovelson <[email protected]> > > For up-to-date grammar (American style anyway) I use the Associated Press > Stylebook, the Chicago Manual of Style for particularly vexing questions. > However, Yahoo has an excellent style guide for writing on the Internet > that is also different from the aforementioned guides. TO me it comes down > to how much you value readability -- I value it a lot, being someone eking > out a living as a writer, publicist, journalist, etc. -- how much effort > you're willing to put into proofreading and ultimately how much you respect > your reader's right to expect reasonably intelligible prose from you the > writer. Also of primary consideration of course - how much are you being > paid to produce said writing...As Elmore Leonard said, "Anybody who writes > and doesn't get paid for it is a fool" or something like that. Say I, as I > write away for nothing here... > > Doug Hovelson > > > [email protected] > > > Minneapolis > To: [email protected] > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Is there a way to do this... > > Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:44:59 -0700 > > > > On 05/25/2012 04:03 AM, Alec McAllister wrote: > > > Fowler tackles this in the "Stops" section. > > > > > > He mentions two schools of thought, which he calls the conventional > > > and the logical, with the latter punctuating according to sense, i.e. > > > putting the stops outside the inverted commas except when they > > > actually form part of the quotation. > > > > > > The former appears to be more common in the USA and the latter in the > > > UK, although neither has ever been completely uniform in either > > > place. > > > > > > I was taught to punctuate according to sense during my education in > > > UK schools, during my Degree in English, during my training as an > > > English teacher and throughout my career as a teacher in the UK ... > > > so it has probably been completely superseded by whatever haphazard > > > punctuation (or lack of it) happens to be current on this week's most > > > fashionable chat-site. :-( > > > > > > Alec McAllister Leeds, UK > > > > OK, you win. :-) >
I hold with Alec McAllister here - and with those who abhor top-posting, which I regard as an abomination.... [?] Henri
