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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2625 on: July 25, 2017, 01:22:22 am »
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« Reply #2626 on: July 26, 2017, 02:08:39 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2627 on: July 26, 2017, 03:49:53 pm »
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Where do you put the comma if you stack double and single quotation marks?

Like, "There is a thread about random stuff, it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'," said silver. Do you do '," or ,'"?

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2628 on: July 26, 2017, 03:53:54 pm »
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'," i believe

that's one of the weird things like punctuation with parentheses where if it were wrong in like an academic paper i don't think anyone would bat an eye
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2629 on: July 26, 2017, 03:55:38 pm »
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Where do you put the comma if you stack double and single quotation marks?

Like, "There is a thread about random stuff, it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'," said silver. Do you do '," or ,'"?

"There is a thread about random stuff, it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'", said silver. The comma is not a part of any of the quotations, so why put it inside them?

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2630 on: July 26, 2017, 03:56:02 pm »
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'," i believe

that's one of the weird things like punctuation with parentheses where if it were wrong in like an academic paper i don't think anyone would bat an eye

Unless it is in a grammar and punctuation journal.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2631 on: July 26, 2017, 04:10:08 pm »
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in russian we merge quotation and use only one type of quotation marks. "There is [..], it's called "Random Stuff III", said Silver
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2632 on: July 26, 2017, 04:14:57 pm »
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Where do you put the comma if you stack double and single quotation marks?

Like, "There is a thread about random stuff, it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'," said silver. Do you do '," or ,'"?

"There is a thread about random stuff, it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'", said silver. The comma is not a part of any of the quotations, so why put it inside them?

This is one of the cases where there's a technical difference between British English and American English: American style guides put punctuation inside the quote even when it's not part of the quoted string itself, and British style guides leave the punctuation out so that the quoted string is exact. Therefore, being a Brit, I think Awaclus's version is correct :-)
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2633 on: July 26, 2017, 04:23:03 pm »
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It's not even standard in American English; it's a convention, but not the only one. 

Though, really, I think you could argue that the exact quoted string is:

There is a thread about random stuff; it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'.

and make a case for:

"There is a thread about random stuff; it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'.", said silver.

The bulkiness is probably why this kind of thing isn't done in narrative.  In technical writing, I would always have exact strings inside quotes.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2634 on: July 27, 2017, 08:27:53 pm »
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I feel like there's two parts to this question:

1. Logical punctuation vs. typesetter's punctuation
2. How to end a narrative quote

For 2, every single thing I've seen says that when you're quoting, if the original ends in a period, you just turn it into a comma and don't have anything extra after the quote.  For 1, it's debatable and could go either way depending on your preference.  So, to my knowledge, the two best ways to do it would be either "There is a thread about random stuff; it's called 'Random Stuff Part III'," said silver. with logical punctuation, or "There is a thread about random stuff; it's called 'Random Stuff Part III,'" said silver. with typesetter's punctuation.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2635 on: July 27, 2017, 08:28:06 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2636 on: July 27, 2017, 09:14:00 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2637 on: July 27, 2017, 09:14:32 pm »
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Just stretch and massage.  Eat things that are good for you.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2638 on: July 28, 2017, 02:49:12 am »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2639 on: July 28, 2017, 11:16:43 am »
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Today is a celebration. 30 years ago this song was first heard by the world.

I suspected as much, but I knew I wanted to click that link anyway.

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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2640 on: July 28, 2017, 03:04:01 pm »
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Today is a celebration. 30 years ago this song was first heard by the world.

It would probably be more appropriate to post that in this forum section:

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=50.0
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2641 on: July 28, 2017, 03:14:35 pm »
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Today is a celebration. 30 years ago this song was first heard by the world.

It would probably be more appropriate to post that in this forum section:

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=50.0

I think that right now this was the first time of my life I didn't click this.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2642 on: July 31, 2017, 11:12:30 am »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2643 on: July 31, 2017, 11:28:07 am »
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Yesterday I approached a Starbucks employee who was sampling cold brew, and I noticed there was a coconut flavored one. I asked her if she was sampling that one, and she told me that it was such a popular flavor that Starbucks has decided to discontinue selling it entirely. This seems entirely counter-intuitive to me. Wouldn't Starbucks want to make more money? The only thing I can think of is that they might intend to do limited time releases for coconut.
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« Reply #2644 on: July 31, 2017, 12:12:13 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2645 on: July 31, 2017, 02:12:38 pm »
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Yesterday I approached a Starbucks employee who was sampling cold brew, and I noticed there was a coconut flavored one. I asked her if she was sampling that one, and she told me that it was such a popular flavor that Starbucks has decided to discontinue selling it entirely. This seems entirely counter-intuitive to me. Wouldn't Starbucks want to make more money? The only thing I can think of is that they might intend to do limited time releases for coconut.


Noooo. Starbucks coconut cold brew was my favorite! Um yeah, I have no idea what they mean by that, unless like you suggested it's related to unavailability of ingredients.Or if they were only able to make so much per day, and they didn't want customers to be disappointed that it was already sold out for the day when they went there.
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2646 on: July 31, 2017, 03:34:13 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2647 on: July 31, 2017, 10:08:55 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part III
« Reply #2648 on: August 01, 2017, 07:27:47 am »
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The script I really don't like but currently have to read turns out to have interesting information about variables. It says Group Theory is the same as oeometry and Geometry is the same as Group Theory from which I conclude that Gemoetry equals eometry and therefore G = 1. Similarly, because Zunächts is used instead of Zunächst, s and t must commute. And all within one page.

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« Reply #2649 on: August 01, 2017, 07:56:16 am »
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The script I really don't like but currently have to read turns out to have interesting information about variables. It says Group Theory is the same as oeometry and Geometry is the same as Group Theory from which I conclude that Gemoetry equals eometry and therefore G = 1. Similarly, because Zunächts is used instead of Zunächst, s and t must commute. And all within one page.

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