From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: Quotation Marks Question
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:36:29 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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From: "ecf" <ecfield at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:11 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Quotation Marks Question

> Ted White wrote:
>
> >As a rule, the period at the end of the sentence goes within the quote
> >marks, regardless.
> >
> There is a trend among techies especially, to do away with this form
> since it is really illogical.  Any programmer will tell you there is a
> nesting problem with any punctuation inside the quotes.  Unless, of
> course... it applies specifically and ONLY to the quoted object.

The original reason is typographical, not grammatical.  It *looks* better
with the period inside the quotes.

Techies tend to assume that the entire world was invented within moments of
their birth and still awaits their contribution to bring it to order.

--Ted White