Re: When to use "affect" vs "effect" (lay vs lie, who vs whom, fewer vs less), etc.

From: Lin Digs Books (lindig_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: 14 Jul 2004 08:36:34 -0700

Dr Zen <gollyg@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<edp9f0l1qdlss659rcu17k3gmt3joqvbp8@4ax.com>...>
> >
> >Some of these pinpoint topics are merely decisions which could have
> >gone either way. For example, the punctuation period properly lands
> >inside the quotation mark, not outside.
>
> In the States.
>
> Zen

Speaking as a professional typesetter (which I was for 20 years), we
put periods and commas inside quote marks so they don't "get lost" and
look like specks on the page. That's the only reason I ever heard. If
you have really good paper, a decently weighted font, and a good
printing method, you can put them outside.

Other punctuation marks follow the sense of the sentence, so colons
and semi-colons go outside the quotes, but screamers (!) and question
marks go inside if they belong to the quote and outside if they belong
to the sentence the quote is in.

See? Simple.

Lindig

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