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Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:24:22 GMT
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Allan Bedford wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > No, it's actually quite clear. As in the example above. ("I" am saying that
> > YOU wrote the stuff that is marked with ">" symbols and YOU are saying that
> > TOM wrote the stuff that is marked with ">>" symbols.)
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> > If you doubt me, you may want to do some research into RFCs.
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> I did better than that. I just opened up my newsreader and took a look.
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> Well I'll be ding dong danged.
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> I must have been mentally correcting it all these years, 'cause I sure
> wouldn't have expected it to look that way.
I would. The quote marks indicate the stuff the quotee wrote. Think
about the use of quotes in normal text, you write: Tom said: "Let's
play." not "Tom said: Let's play". If you are quoting a passage from a
book or something you do this:
When quotations of an entire line, or more
of either verse or prose are to be distinguished
typographically from text matter, as are the
quotations in this book, begin on a fresh line
and indent. Quotation marks should not be used
unless they appear in the original, as in dialogue.
(from Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style").
Frank
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| (...) Yep. And I would now too. As I mentioned, I think it just visually looked different to me when posting via the web interface. I'm really not that much of a netiot I was just having a newbie flashback moment I think. :) (...) This actually (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I did better than that. I just opened up my newsreader and took a look. Well I'll be ding dong danged. I must have been mentally correcting it all these years, 'cause I sure wouldn't have expected it to look that way. I find on LUGNET, when (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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