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Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Sat, 5 Jan 2002 02:17:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Frank Filz writes:
> Allan Bedford wrote:
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > > If you doubt me, you may want to do some research into RFCs.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I must have been mentally correcting it all these years, 'cause I sure
> > wouldn't have expected it to look that way.
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> I would.
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. :)
> 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:
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> 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.
This actually explains it nicely. I hope it will help others as well.
> (from Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style").
Wonderful to see someone actually still worrying about writing style and
semantics. They seem to get bashed and bruised when it comes to computers,
email and the net.
All the best,
Allan B.
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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