double full stops?
Ralph Bogert
rbogert at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA
Wed Jan 24 21:17:31 UTC 2001
>Note this usage:
"Commas are conventional in dates (January 24, 2001), addresses (North York
Ontario), and names (W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Walter J. Ong, S.J.)."
Hello,
> I wonder if I need to put a full stop at the end of a
> sentence when it ends with a closing parenthesis (or a closing
> quote) preceded by a full stop used as an abbreviation mark.
>
For example:
> Vot ehti glavnejshie mery:
> 1) ...
> 2) Nacionalizacija sindikatov, t. e. krupnejshikh, mo-
> nopolisticheskikh sojuzov kapitalistov (sindikaty: sakhar-
> nyj, neftjanoj, ugol'nyj, metallurgicheskij i t. d.).
> 3) Otmena kommercheskoj tajny.
> (Cited from Lenin's "Thretening catastrophe and how to
> fight with it". Please note the end of the item 2.)
>
> I have noticed that
> 1. If the sentence ends with a full stop as part of an
> abbreviation, exclamation or query mark may be appended,
> but not a full stop.
> 2. If the sentence ends with a quotation mark or a parenthesis
> preceded by a full stop signifying an end of an inner sentence,
> that full stop may be left there (in the case of the English
> language) or moved outside the quotation(parenthesis) mark
> (in the case of the Russian language). In both cases a full
> stop will not be added.
>
> My vague impression is that whereas .). is not seen in English,
> it is common in Russian. Is that right?
>
> Thanks,
> Tsuji
>
> ----
> P.S.
> Note for the Americans: "full stop" is an English word for
> the American word "period".
>
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