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   Mike Powell - DENIS MOSKO:   
      
   > > @MSGID: <5E89F31C.964.englisht@capitolcityonline.net>   
   > > David said, "Today we shall all be working hard, don't slack   
   > > off".   
   >   
   > > David said, 'Today we shall all be working hard, don't slack   
   > > off'.   
   >   
   > > See how silly the second one is, using the same punctuation   
   > > mark for the missing letter in don't as for what David spoke?   
   >   
   > I do not think that the second one is correct for how one would   
   > normally punctuate that sentence in English.   
      
   Especially in ASCII, where the same character plays the roles of   
   the apostrophe and of the opening single quotation mark.   
      
   > We would normally use the double-quote as in the first example.   
   > We would also put the period at the end inside of the second   
   > double-quote mark.   
      
   inside *of*?  I think that `inside' is a complete preposition by   
   itself. The placement of the full stop insde the quotation is more   
   beautiful than outside it, whereas the logically correct   
   punctuation is the ugliest:   
      
   David said "Today we shall all be working hard, don't slack off.".   
      
   Both the quoted and quoting sentences shall have their terminating   
   punctuation.  No comma is logically required after `said' because   
   David's utternace is its direct object.   
      
   David's request sounds rather illogical after the promise of hard   
   work, unless is addressed to someone wihtout the group to which   
   "we" refers...   
      
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