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Originally posted by john70t
-question mark within the parenthesis-even though it identifies the sentance as a question?
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This has always been a pet peeve of mine. An example expression: Is your e-mail "foobarquux@hotmail.com?" No, of course not -- my e-mail address is "foobarquux@hotmail.com". I know the proper "English" rule of leaving puncuation inside the quotes, but I routinely ignore it because it's often misleading to do so.
As to our schools not teaching decent English anymore, I can vouch for that. I do volunteer work at a local junior high, and those kids kannt rite werth beens. Worse, I try to help, and they tell me that "It doesn't matter, the teacher don't read nobody's papers." Schokking.
Dan