Punctuation marks are only supposed to go inside quotation marks when an entire sentence or independent phrase is being quoted. When isolated words are put in quotation marks, the punctuation goes OUTSIDE the quotation marks.
So:
She said, "You are being pedantic."
BUT
She said that I was being "pedantic".
So:
She said, "You are being pedantic."
BUT
She said that I was being "pedantic".
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
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Cersei and random noble chick, last GRRM novel I read. (like 5 years ago) *NM*
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This request is causing me a great deal of distress.
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You have to type up some samples for me, b/c so far I think your crazy. I love that paragraph. *NM*
- 11/04/2011 11:42:26 PM
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"you're", not "your". And the paragraph was awful.
- 12/04/2011 12:28:02 AM
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Yes, and punctuation marks go inside the quodation marks, "like so."
- 12/04/2011 05:16:55 PM
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No they don't, at least not in my reply.
- 14/04/2011 05:44:50 AM
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Re: No they don't, at least not in my reply.
- 14/04/2011 04:38:37 PM
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Substantive critique of that travesty of an attempt at writing:
- 14/04/2011 06:00:16 AM
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Re: Substantive critique of that travesty of an attempt at writing:
- 14/04/2011 04:30:58 PM
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The ones in Illuminatus were sometimes hot, and usually pretty funny. *NM*
- 11/04/2011 07:34:49 PM
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