From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:06:18 +0000 Message-ID: <20151229090618.GA1884@acm.fritz.box> References: <444c19cb-4687-41c4-8291-481f5b5a42a1@default> <9e93866e-c6a4-42e3-b8b2-70fd6185b25e@default> <7294941d-a7c4-469c-9203-7949b2e34f0b@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451379864 5515 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2015 09:04:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:04:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, Per =?iso-8859-1?Q?Starb=E4ck?= , Drew Adams To: Nikolai Weibull Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 10:04:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDqCT-0000hX-Hs for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:04:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDqCS-0002so-MN for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:04:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDqCN-0002pm-UQ for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDqCK-0006gG-Lg for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:49549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDqCK-0006ey-D2 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 04:04:04 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 33326 invoked by uid 3782); 29 Dec 2015 09:04:01 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p579E804C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.158.128.76]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:04:00 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 1922 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Dec 2015 09:06:18 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tangents:59 Archived-At: [ redirected to emacs-tangents ] Hello, Nikolai On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > My point is that the English will use single quotes a lot more than > Americans, given that they use them for the first level of quoting. Well, I'm not quite English, but I grew up in England and was educated there. I find myself using double quotes at the first level, always. > As they also tend to shy away from contractions, in far more areas > than academic writing, .... I'm, you're, she's, we're, you're, they're, I've, you've, it's, we've, they've, can't, won't, wouldn't, couldn't, amn't, aren't, isn't, weren't, I'll've, you'll've, .... are part of my normal working vocabulary. Where do you get the idea that the English avoid contractions? (That's a genuine question, not a rhetorical one.) [ .... ] -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).