2010 Wishes

[rman444]

I am looking it up and I believe that the comma should be inside the quotes.

Shame on you for correcting the person who corrected Barry!

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by rman444

I am looking it up and I believe that the comma should be inside the quotes.

Shame on you for correcting the person who corrected Barry!

The comma should be inside the quotes.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

The comma should be inside the quoutes.

I fixed your post for you Rob.

[barrysloate]

Thanks for pointing out the comma; I'm not sure but it might be acceptable either way, especially since Jim is weird and misspelled "weird" simultaneously (that was a joke)

As far as placement of punctutation within quotations, at the end of a sentence one would put the quotes after the period. I honestly don't know how that applies in the middle of a sentence. It seems like it should be the same but I would have to look it up.

I see that Anthony has already looked it up, saving me the trouble. Thanks Anthony...because it sure seemed like a lot of work.

[Jim VB]

I can't wait until we get into the riveting discussion concerning writing styles using first, second, and third person points of view!


(For the record, whenever I get in these grammar/punctuation/usage jams, if I can't get an answer from Barry or Rob D., I ask my kids. You should have heard the rousing discussion we had while doing the annual family calendar! I wanted to know if it was "Mother's Day" or "Mothers' Day.")

[slidekellyslide]

Seems awfully wierd to me that punctuation goes inside of quotation marks. English is a second language to me.

[Anthony S.]

It gets weirder. In England the convention is indeed to put the comma outside the quotation marks. Then again, Americans created the language in the first place, so we're right.

[barrysloate]

I forget many of these rules myself. I just wing it and hope nobody notices, because when I make a mistake it's big trouble...and Dan B. just misspelled "weird." This will never end.

[slidekellyslide]

I misspelled "weird" just for you Barry.

I did have to look up the quotations rule because I don't trust any of you. I normally consider myself a decent writer and am a bit embarrassed that I didn't know that, but I don't write for a living so I forgive myself.

[Kawika]

Rule of thumb in etiquette and proper English usage:
If Amy Vanderbilt can jump out of a window you can do whatever the heck you please.