Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by gumby on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:18AM (#28540238)

For simplicity, every sentence should end with a full stop (period). Thus:

    How are you today?.

    This is important!.

Which clearly demonstrates that ! and ? can appear in the middle of a sentence, just as ; and , can:

   I want to call to your attention this very important!! point: always checks the return value of your system calls.

I do draw the line at introducing scoping operators though it would simplify the grammar.

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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by LeoPanthera on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:46PM (#28544146)

The dot below ? and ! is the full stop.

Thus implying the existence of non-dotted versions for mid-sentence usage.

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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by gumby on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:53PM (#28546533)

Good point -- I shoulda known as IPv8 addresses use ., !, and ? to separate address parts when using "dotted" notation.

> Thus implying the existence of non-dotted versions for mid-sentence usage.

Or would they have commas as is used when the : is degrades into the less definitive ;?

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