From: "Yann Hodique" <yann.hodique@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:09:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <288739800607300309g3df70ea1jb1ff40773c912db0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a17030f00607290152t39324e9bnaaec5241447642ea@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/29/06, Sven Axelsson <sven.axelsson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right. Other quote symbols do not use paranthesis syntax. And, as
> previously stated, different locales mix and match them in all kinds
> of ways. E.g. in Denmark French quotes are used »like this«, in Sweden
> they are used »like this». In Sweden, double quotes are similarly used
> "like this", whereas in Germany an extra symbol is used „like this".
Also, in France a left french quote is often used to mark the beginning of
each paragraph in a quotation, all of them "closed" by a single right
french quote, so that they are not balanced.
Like in :
« Something ...
... in a paragraph.
« Something else ...
... and then the end. »
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Yann Hodique
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 5:34 French quotes treated as parentheses Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 5:56 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 12:27 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-28 17:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-28 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-29 2:23 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-29 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 2:36 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2006-07-31 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 6:08 ` Sven Joachim
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-29 8:52 ` Sven Axelsson
2006-07-29 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 10:09 ` Yann Hodique [this message]
2006-07-29 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
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