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gray

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:sigh: I'm not arguing that you're wrong, Burke. I already said that in the States, the rule is that punctuation is never outside the quotation marks.

What I'm trying to say is that it seems logical to me not to insert punctuation into a quote if it's not part of the original quote.

The last line on the page that you sent me reads:

"Dave is outside," Mike whispered. "He is my best friend."

It doesn't make a great deal of difference to me, but

* Dave is outside,

is an incorrect sentence, because sentences should end with a period.

So by quoting "Dave is outside," it looks like the original speaker said something more than that i.e. "Dave is outside, because his dad told him to go outside"

when in fact "Dave is outside." was a complete sentence in the original quote.
 

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gray

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++ [ originally posted by Andy ] ++
Graham, I thought you were supposed to be at Uni? Are you lying to us buddy?
How dare you question my integrity like that :boxing::)

I had a class in the last hour.

At 2:20pm local time, I said that I was 20 minutes late for class, and I went to that class, which finished at 3pm.

From 3:00 - 4:30 I have a computing lab exercise; it's 3:40pm right now ;)
 

gray

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++ [ originally posted by Bürke ] ++
Because your deltoids and tricepts are accentuated by your strong neck and ripped lats.
Oh, that photo was taken about a year ago. I've put on about 3kg since then :frown:
 

gray

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++ [ originally posted by Bürke ] ++
I know, but the recent one looks as if you have been working on your legs. :)

All three of them. ;)
Yeah, I was having some difficulty with the third one because it was a bit longer than the others (a bit like Garrincha), but I'm over all of that now, including my back problems :)
 
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++ [ originally posted by gray ] ++

Yeah, I was having some difficulty with the third one because it was a bit longer than the others (a bit like Garrincha), but I'm over all of that now, including my back problems :)
I was going to say, it looked as if you were carrying a refridgerator around to all of your classes, as well as having a 20 foot python streaming out of your pantleg.

:D
 

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