[PLUG-TALK] Re: Linux grammar checkers? (was OT - predicate nominative (was Re: [PLUG] Next Perl Monger's) Meeting)

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Mon Oct 25 21:27:38 UTC 2004


>>>>> "alan" == alan  <alan at clueserver.org> writes:

Russell> Yeah, that's one of my little rebellions too.  Demanding that
Russell> punctuation go inside quotes is _just wrong_.  ;-)

Jeme> Isn't this in the jargon file somewhere?

alan> Yes. I don't remember exactly where though.

You got me interested, so I grep'd for it and found it in the under
"Hacker Writing Style".

  <http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html>

See second paragraph in particular.


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