From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: "Julien Lepiller" <julien@lepiller.eu>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
38108@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#38108] doc: Fix typos -- parenthesis dot
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 14:32:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522183256.GA11419@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ2RLAYeiFNztG0vLjyb9ZF-F++g1sx9ojz6W9503Dn2gw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:01:50AM +0200, zimoun wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 03:31, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
>
> > Isn't it normal in English to end a sentence inside the parenthesis?
>
> No, it is not what the rule of typos say, both in American and British
> English. This message [1] of the thread summarizes the arguments: the
> Chicago Manual of Style (holy bible of english typo) is pretty clear,
> The Guardian too and discussion on IRC with natives confirmed.
>
> Well, as you and Ludo too, I thought that the English convention was
> always '.)' in all the cases but not; see example in [1]. Because we
> are all three French, maybe teachers at school lied us. ;-)
It's standard in American English to end the sentence outside of the
parentheses (like this). Maybe "Continental English" is different, I
don't know :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-22 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 18:50 [bug#38108] [PATCH] doc: Fix typos zimoun
2019-11-08 14:10 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-11-09 11:40 ` zimoun
2019-11-08 22:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-09 12:14 ` zimoun
2019-11-09 21:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-11 20:52 ` zimoun
2019-12-02 12:57 ` zimoun
2019-12-13 10:19 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-12-13 11:27 ` zimoun
2019-12-13 11:55 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-05-22 0:01 ` [bug#38108] doc: Fix typos -- parenthesis dot zimoun
2020-05-22 0:08 ` zimoun
2020-05-22 1:31 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-05-22 8:01 ` zimoun
2020-05-22 18:32 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-05-25 9:43 ` zimoun
2020-05-25 13:23 ` bug#38108: " Julien Lepiller
2020-05-26 7:57 ` [bug#38108] " zimoun
2020-05-25 17:33 ` Leo Famulari
2019-11-11 20:11 ` [bug#38108] [PATCH] doc: Fix typos zimoun
2020-05-21 23:55 ` [bug#38108] [PATCH v2] " zimoun
2020-05-22 0:03 ` [bug#38108] [PATCH v3] " zimoun
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