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How appropriate

2nd December 2003 at 15:24
How appropriate that the BBC should run a punctuation quiz the day we talk about spelling in the BCSS lab.

In particular, question 4 (which I got wrong just to see what they said about it):

It's wrong... [sensible people put] the last full stop outside the closing speech marks.

So you suck, Tristan.

I want everyone to now go and take the test, and post their results back here. I got 10.

Comments

  1. Yes, Tristan does suck. But I want to see his skills of an artist. Well, g2g!
    Laura2nd December 2003 at 15:25
  2. Bah 8, because i didn't know about a) shakespear, b) that :- is screaming... wtf
    NoVisAnima2nd December 2003 at 16:14
  3. I got 5 :/ But I'm not a native English speaker, and my teacher's way of teaching us punctuation was along the lines of "The English don't teach it in school, so we're not going to either!"...
    Mihtjel2nd December 2003 at 19:29
  4. In America, it is standard to put the full stop inside brackets or speech marks. It looks really stupid though.
    Stu2nd December 2003 at 19:36
  5. Stu: Yeah, that's actually what it said in the BBC answer...
    radiac3rd December 2003 at 00:17
  6. I got 7, but im from Middlesbrough. Radiac, i know you cheated, it's in your nature ;)
    indie3rd December 2003 at 17:00

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