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Article #677Re: Which Makes Most Sense?
From: Arne Dehli Halvorsen
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:45
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:45
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Peter T. Daniels wrote: > Barb Knox wrote: >> In article <1166200279.810244.244340@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>, >> "Prisoner at War" <prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Flying Tortoise wrote: >> [snip] >>> And what do you do to show that you're quoting a quote? Like, use >>> "double" quotations marks (use them twice)? >> One British convention (Oxford, IIRC) used single-quotes for the >> outermost quotation, double-quotes for a quoted quotation, triple-quotes >> for the next level, etc. >> >> E.g., 'I told him, ''Never say '''Bugger!''' in polite company.'' ' > > Now that, I have never seen! > I believe this is the convention followed by John Barth in his short story Menelaiad in his book "Lost in the Funhouse". In this story the convention is taken to seven layers, with a lot of jumping back up from level 7 to level 3 etc. Invented example, annotated with levels: ...came out of the woods'''', said he.''' '' '. Peter paused and 4444444444444444444444444 3333333333 2 1 00000000000000000 continued: ' ''John had now told his story... 00000000000 1 222222222222222222222222222 If I remember correctly, he then starts to place some of these quotation marks in parentheses, so that you are unsure of which level you are at. Reminiscent of Lisp programming. --Arne
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