Re: Which Makes Most Sense?

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:50

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Arne Dehli Halvorsen wrote:
> 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.

Gee, I'm _so_ sorry I never got into contemporary art-fiction.

> Reminiscent of Lisp programming.

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