The following thread might be of interest.
http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2568
Within it is the following sentence that I devised to use eleven punctuation
characters.
“I saw Jane at the supermarket, in the fruit section: she said ‘Is John still
researching?’ and bought a punnet of reddish-orange apricots; then she bought
some dates!” said Edith.
Edith, John and Jane are story characters from some creative writing of mine
from years ago.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/euto0000.htm
I know only a very little German.
Yet would it be helpful to devise some story characters that are in a very
short story where some German needs to be spoken and some English needs to be
spoken that illustrate the situation being discussed?
The text could be set mostly in Roman but with the spoken words and their
punctuation in Italic.
----
Angela has arrived in Mainz and has walked outside the railway station. She
looks around.
A taxi driver is nearby.
"TEXT NEEDED HERE" asks the taxi driver, thinking that Angela might be
German-speaking and from Germany.
Angela looks at him, not fully understanding.
“Do you need a taxi?” asks the taxi driver, thinking that Angela might be
English-speaking and from England.
----
The part labelled TEXT NEEDED HERE could be something like
Brauchen Sie ein Taxi?
though I am not precisely sure of that so I have put it in this format so that
someone who knows German can patch either it or a corrected version into the
text if he or she so chooses.
The quotation marks used here above for the German part are U+0022 QUOTATION
MARK, though they are just used as placeholders for introducing this idea, so
it needs someone to edit the text so as to use the correct punctuation for
German if he or she so chooses. I am hoping that this text can be adapted to
illustrate the situation and, once adapted, be a useful test for a font or for
a pair of fonts, Roman and Italic, using text in more than one language.
The story could be extended with the taxi driver asking in many different
languages if that would be useful. Please feel free to edit the story as
desired.
It might be that a story where the TEXT NEEDED HERE part consists of some text
with some reported speech within it, so that both double and single quotes are
needed.
----
Angela has arrived in Mainz and has walked outside the railway station. She
looks around.
She calls for a taxi.
A taxi driver is nearby.
"TEXT NEEDED HERE" asks the taxi driver, thinking that Angela might be
German-speaking and from Germany.
Angela looks at him, not fully understanding.
“Did you call ‘Taxi’ a minute ago?” asks the taxi driver, thinking that Angela
might be English-speaking and from England.
----
I hope that this helps.
William Overington
5 May 2012
