R: double full stops?

[Edil Legno]

Za  vtorym  punktom postav'te "toc'ku s zapjatoj" ";"
Katarina
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From: Yoshimasa Tsuji <yamato at YT.CACHE.WASEDA.AC.JP>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:42 AM
Subject: double full stops?


> 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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