<div><div dir="auto">I prefer the quote marks unless there is a glottal stop in the orthography of the translation, then it becomes a typographical nightmare. Parentheses in my opinion should be for parenthetical statements within the primary language of the text body. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Hugh Paterson. Someone younger than a baby boomer. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:12 PM John Lynch <<a href="mailto:johnlynch123@gmail.com">johnlynch123@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It would be interesting to know the reason for this proposed change. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Parentheses are usually used to add additional but non-essential information. Calling on my editorial experience, I can envisage two different kinds of situations. One is where the non-English term is used as if it was an ordinary word in an ordinary sentence, in which case the parenthetical translation might be appropriate. For example:</font></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">a. Only men may enter the <em style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">fale</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">house) during mortuary ceremonies ...</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">or </font></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">b. Only men may enter the house (<em style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">fale</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">) during mortuary ceremonies ...</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000">The other is where the focus is on the word as an item of linguistic exposition, in which case the parenthesis is </font></span><span class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000">mistakenly treating the gloss as non-essential. In such cases I would support retaining the current practice. E.g.:</font></span></font></p></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000">c. The first syllable of </font></span> <em style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">fale</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <span class="gmail_default">'</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">house<span class="gmail_default">' is usually stressed,although ...</span></span></font></p></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John</span></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7816963585509929825gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:44 PM Ross Clark <<a href="mailto:r.clark@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">r.clark@auckland.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I've had an inquiry from the editor of a journal which sometimes publishes papers of a (Pacific) linguistic nature. They are contemplating changing the format for glosses of single words in languages other than English from single-quotes to parentheses -- e.g.from<br>
<br>
fale 'house'<br>
<br>
to<br>
<br>
fale (house).<br>
<br>
This would bring it into agreement with the reverse situation, where a local-language equivalent is given for a word in non-linguistic discussion:<br>
<br>
house (fale).<br>
<br>
[Sorry, all those fale's should be in italics. Don't know how to make that happen in Outlook.]<br>
<br>
Apparently the Chicago Manual of Style approves this. <br>
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I don’t find this change particularly disturbing, even though single-quotes is a pretty widely followed practice in linguistics. But I wanted to circulate the question a little to see if there is strong feeling about it, or if people can think of difficulties which haven’t occurred to me.<br>
Thanks for your input.<br>
Ross Clark<br>
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