Barry Kalb: Punctuation
文章日期:2012年11月28日

Trying to set down rules for punctuation, those little squiggles that make writing understandable – periods, commas, quotation marks and the like – is a risky business. Verbal wars have been fought by grammarians over how and whether to use the semi-colon. The placement of commas is a matter of violent dispute. Americans and Britons can't even agree on what to call the marks. A "period" in the U.S. is a "full stop" in the U.K. An American's "quotation marks" are a Brit's "inverted commas."

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