http://www.meryl.net/2005/07/serial-commas/ Content on writing, tech, business, marketing, web design. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.meryl.net/2005/07/serial-commas/#comment-825 codeman38 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:57:32 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/07/07/serial-commas/#comment-825 <p>...And by "outside", I meant "inside". Though I prefer them to go outside, as you can see here, for the reasons mentioned above.</p> …And by “outside”, I meant “inside”. Though I prefer them to go outside, as you can see here, for the reasons mentioned above.

]]> http://www.meryl.net/2005/07/serial-commas/#comment-824 codeman38 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:56:30 +0000 http://meryl.net/new/2005/07/07/serial-commas/#comment-824 <p>Another wonderful example of style rules at odds with technical writing: the (in my opinion outdated) rule that punctuation should always go outside quotation marks. In some cases, adding an extra period or comma to a quoted command can make a huge difference in what it does!</p> Another wonderful example of style rules at odds with technical writing: the (in my opinion outdated) rule that punctuation should always go outside quotation marks. In some cases, adding an extra period or comma to a quoted command can make a huge difference in what it does!

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