However, the position of the punctuation depends on the sense. If the
punctuation belongs to the quoted text, that's where it goes. If it belongs to
the sentence as a whole, it goes outside the quotation marks.
Chris
On 20 Nov 13, at 00:36, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm just a wee bit embarrassed to say that for the most part I have adopted
> the English English practice of putting punctuation outside the quote marks
> because it just looks cleaner. <g> But I will not give up my zees. You'll get
> them when you pry them out of my cold dead word processor.
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