This could be a comment on Brian's blog, but I decided to update my own site instead.
I strongly agree that Steve Wosniak should not be on TWiT. I could only get through about 15 minutes of Episode 40 before I turned it off. He wouldn't stop talking. And then he threw in political comments about the war in Iraq. What does that have to do with the "last word in tech?" As for Dvorak, did you hear him rail on Leo this week for gushing on Wosniak?
Grammar question:
If you have a quote at the end of a sentence with punctuation that is not a part of the quote (e.g., "last word in tech?") do you put the question mark inside or outside of the quote ("last word in tech"?)?
And then there's this parenthetical issue, too.
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I didn't understand anything you just said.... :)
But I can answer the grammar question. The question mark (or exclamation point) is OUTSIDE the quotation marks if the quotation is not a question (i.e. "the last word in tech"?). If the quotation is a question itself (i.e. "How are you?") the question mark stays inside. If you are questioning a quotation that is a question (OK now I sound like Dr. Suess), i.e. Did he just say, "how are you?", keep the question mark in the quotation.
That is the lesson for today. :)
Lydia
Dr. Grammar, Medicine Woman
That's what I thought, but it didn't look right so I changed it. I've always been confused by that.
em! i can't believe that hole in your house--- (yeah, i'm on a previous post, but oh well). nice new office too, though it is a bummer how you got it. :)
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