[OFF] Re: Records
[OFF] Re: Records
- Subject: [OFF] Re: Records
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:54:27 -0600
At 14:59 -0600 28/02/01, Nigel Garvey wrote:
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I think it's because they're used as quotes in some European languages. I
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have a few novels in German, where the characters' speech is rendered
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like this:
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>>Nein<<, sagte sie kurz und entschieden, >>ich lausche nicht.<<
The chevrons are the official guillemets in French. Of course, there is a
general trend to use the English double quote instead, but books printed
according to our typographic rules use the chevrons.
Not the way Nigel quotes, by the way:
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Emmanuel icrivit: <<Pas de la fagon que cite Nigel, d'ailleurs.>>
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Emmanuel
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