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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Nikolai Weibull <now@disu.se>
Cc: "Per Starbäck" <per@starback.se>,
	"Emacs Developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: ASCII-only startup message?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 02:15:16 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0e65e8f-9579-497a-a7ab-c302b425811c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADdV=MtK0T8yRUpDndY+0NWrW_m_U=pwctB1tQ6ecmM_jNWU9Q@mail.gmail.com>

> > Any evidence for your claim that ' is in Unicode only for
> > compatibility between "left single quotation mark" and "right
> > single quotation mark"?  Do you think that is even the most
> > common use case for ' in old-fashioned plain text, whether
> > typewriter or computer?  ", yes, but '?  I don't think so.
> 
> Given the English’ propensity to still not use contractions, but to
> use single quotation marks when quoting, it’s not as clear cut as you
> suggest either.

Sorry, but I don't know what that means, or how it relates to
what you quoted from me.  Is there a propensity in English not
to use contractions?  Maybe in some academic writing.  Not in
general, to my knowledge.

Are you arguing that you think that ' has been used mainly for
quotation and not as an apostrophe?  Perhaps in Britain, where
single quotation marks are apparently used at the top level,
but not in the US, is my guess.  I think you will find relatively
few uses of single quotation marks in American English, and
relatively many uses of an apostrophe.  But it's not an important
point.  And I never said it was "clear cut" - I said "I don't
think so", and I _asked_ what Per thought.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-28 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-26 17:25 ASCII-only startup message? Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 18:41   ` Random832
2015-12-26 18:50     ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 19:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 19:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 18:45   ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 19:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 19:40       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 20:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 23:28           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27  0:17             ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27  1:03               ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2015-12-27  2:51                 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27  1:09               ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 15:56                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 18:45                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27  6:58               ` Random832
2015-12-27 14:17                 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 14:55                   ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 16:35                     ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 17:42                       ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 19:27                         ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 22:47                           ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 23:45                             ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-28  2:01                               ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28  5:51                                 ` Random832
2015-12-28 10:09                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28  6:05                                 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-28 10:13                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28  9:12                                 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 10:15                                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-28 14:59                                     ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 18:39                                       ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28  9:37                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-28 10:16                               ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29  7:05                                 ` Random832
2015-12-29  8:01                                   ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-29 14:38                                     ` Random832
2015-12-29 15:58                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:05                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 18:00                                       ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29 18:16                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 19:24                                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 15:55                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:40                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 16:31                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27  3:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27  8:12               ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 20:04               ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29  6:50                 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-29 16:55                   ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 17:30                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 18:18                       ` Drew Adams
2016-01-01 13:29                       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-01 17:48                         ` John Wiegley
2016-01-01 17:50                           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02  8:14                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 15:05                 ` Random832
2015-12-29 16:49                   ` John Wiegley
     [not found]                 ` <<n5u7gn$6vh$1@ger.gmane.org>
2015-12-29 17:46                   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<567ECD8C.1070408@cs.ucla.edu>

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