Re: Article on Finno-Ugric in the Economist
- From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:16:45 +0100
Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Harlan Messinger:
> >>>http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5323735
> >>
> >>The article contains several inaccuracies, starting from the very first
> >>sentence: it contains a purported Finnish statement, which however does
> >>not even use Finnish punctuation (we always leave a space around a
> >>dash, and normally use en dash, not em dash)
> > Whoa -- a spaced en-dash is _British_ style, and a closed-up em-dash is
> > _American_ style, and The Economist is a British magazine!
>
> Isn't The Economist the British magazine that also uses the US convention
> for numbers in the billions and trillions?
The UK took up that convention three decades ago or so.
Jack Lynch--zombie Irish Taoiseach teaching English at Rutgers!--says spaces
around the dash are a matter of house
style. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/d.html#dash
--
I AM IN JAIL AND ALLOWED SEND ONLY ONE CABLE SINCE WAS ARRESTED WHILE
MEASURING FIFTEEN FOOT WALL OUTSIDE PALACE AND HAVE JUST FINISHED COUNTING
THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDERED TWENTY TWO NAMES WHOS WHO IN MIDEAST.
.
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